See travesty on Wiktionary
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},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 56:",
"text": "In 1844, objection was raised to the Furness Railway's Dalton & Barrow line, when it was revealed that the line would pass directly through Furness Abbey. A re-route was achieved, with the line skirting the abbey ruins instead - although many continued to see the intrusion as a travesty against antiquity and the scenic beauty of the site.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation."
],
"links": [
[
"absurd",
"absurd"
],
[
"grotesque",
"grotesque"
],
[
"misrepresentative",
"misrepresentative"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A pastiche, parody, or stylistic imitation; a burlesque literary or artistic imitation (typically of a more serious work)."
],
"links": [
[
"pastiche",
"pastiche"
],
[
"parody",
"parody"
],
[
"burlesque",
"burlesque"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:",
"text": "Spurs survived the scare - and such was their domination after the break that it would have been a travesty had Arsenal escaped Wembley, hosting a Premier League record attendance of 83,222, with a draw.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior)."
],
"links": [
[
"appalling",
"appalling"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sometimes proscribed) An appalling event, situation or outcome (especially in relation to another outcome to which it is grossly inferior)."
],
"tags": [
"proscribed",
"sometimes"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "trăvʹĭs-tē"
},
{
"enpr": "trăvʹəs-tē"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-travesty.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga/En-us-travesty.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "caricature"
},
{
"word": "feign"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izopačavane",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "изопачаване"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "拙劣的模仿 (zhuōliède mófǎng, literally “clumsy imitation”)",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "travestie"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avbronglan"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "avskepling"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "keipumynd"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "irvikuva"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zerrbild"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "viḍambanā",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "विडंबना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "megcsúfolás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "karikatúra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"word": "farsa"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "karikatur"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parodi"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "komedie"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "farse"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "parodija",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пародия"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "travestie"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "herming"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "keipuleikur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Farce"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lächerliche Karikatur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Travestie"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"word": "paródia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "A parody or stylistic imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "trawestacja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A grossly inferior imitation.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "armselige Karikatur"
}
],
"word": "travesty"
}
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"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Italian",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (dress)",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations"
],
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{
"word": "travestier"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wes-",
"id": "dress"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "travesti",
"t": "disguised, burlesqued"
},
"expansion": "French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "travestire",
"t": "to dress up, disguise"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "tra-",
"3": "vestire",
"nocat": "1",
"t1": "across",
"t2": "to dress"
},
"expansion": "tra- (“across”) + vestire (“to dress”)",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "vestiō",
"4": "",
"5": "to clothe, dress"
},
"expansion": "Latin vestiō (“to clothe, dress”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*westis",
"t": "clothing"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wéstis",
"4": "",
"5": "dressing"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "wear"
},
"expansion": "English wear",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "travesti"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of travesti",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "travesties",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "travestying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "travestied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "travestied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "travesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"trav‧es‧ty"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make a travesty of; to parody."
],
"links": [
[
"parody",
"parody"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "trăvʹĭs-tē"
},
{
"enpr": "trăvʹəs-tē"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.ɪs.ti/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɹæv.əs.ti/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-travesty.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga/En-us-travesty.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-travesty.oga"
}
],
"word": "travesty"
}
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