vaudeville

Borrowed from French vaudeville.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.d(ə).vɪl/, /ˈvoʊd.vɪl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔː.də.vɪl/

• Audio (UK):

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vaudeville (countable and uncountable, plural vaudevilles)

1. (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
2. (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
   • 2008 January 28, Ben Brantley, “Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.

• music hall (British)

• burlesque

• vaudeville blues
• vaudevillian (noun/adjective)

• → Tagalog: bodabil

French vaudeville

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoːdʋil/, [ˈʋo̞ːdʋil]

vaudeville

1. vaudeville

Unclear. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”), or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).

• IPA^(key): /vod.vil/

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vaudeville m (plural vaudevilles)

1. vaudeville
   • 1858, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, L'Héritage mystérieux:

     À ses moments perdus, Fernand écrivait, avec ses camarades de bureau, un tiers ou un sixième de vaudeville .

     "In his idle moments Fernand would write a scene or two of vaudeville with his colleagues from the office."

• burlesque

• “vaudeville”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vådevill

vaudeville c

1. vaudeville

• vaudeville in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaudeville in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vaudeville in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)