travesty

Meanings

1. An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
2. A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work).
3. An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior).

1. To make a travesty of; to parody.

Etymology

From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of travesti.

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