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How to pronounce vaudevillian in English?

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Type of performer, performing artist

Examples of vaudevillian

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Rogers-Baker's parents were in theater and her grandmother was even a vaudevillian.
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Jones, Renaissance vaudevillian versions of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello.
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She was full of hope to make a comeback with this vaudevillian cabaret act.
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In baseball terms, Chicago is more like a vaudevillian foil to St. Louis.
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Velma, a vaudevillian who murders her husband and her sister, is played by Sarah Carey.
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Sometimes they take on a vaudevillian air, amusing each other with dramatic flourishes.
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The first half reminds one of Citizen Kane in its vaudevillian energy.
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Julie Harris, starring as a young vaudevillian named June, also picked up a Tony nomination.
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This is vaudevillian ballet, an audience pleaser with plenty of softshoe and tap en pointe.
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More examples
  • A performer who works in vaudeville
  • (vaudeville) a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
  • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. ...
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  • A vaudeville is a French satirical poem or song born of the 17th and 18th centuries. Its name is lent to the French theatrical entertainment comu00E9die en vaudeville of the 19th and 20th century. From these vaudeville took its name.
  • (vaudeville) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s; An entertainment in this style
  • (Vaudeville) (French, from voix de ville, literally 'street song') originally satirical Parisian street songs which during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) taking on more topical songs found themselves incorporated into comedies performed at Paris fairs. ...
  • (Vaudeville) A matter of verve, nerve and vermilion.
  • (vaudeville) stage entertainment comprising a variety of unrelated acts such as songs, dances, magic, comedy, etc. Originally, a vaudeville was a French entertainment that combined pantomime, dance, and music to tell a simple story.