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Meaning of neoburlesque | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A modern fashion style based on traditional burlesque.

uncountable

Examples

“The state of being partially or very casually dressed, as in, “The teen star gives an extremely naked performance in the CW remake⟳ of ‘Bilitis,’ spending the entire movie in varying degrees of dishabille”; a front-row buzzword in a season in which designers have⟳ stripped back the silhouette to its conceptual, neoburlesque bare bones, e.g., “The collection was very mid-’90s Madonna dishabille in Seville meets Dita Von Teese in Greece.””

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

neocallimastigomycete neocancer neocapillary neocapitalism neocapitalist neocarb

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