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means A mocking, exaggerated send-up of something serious or elevated, achieved by treating trivial things grandly or grand things trivially — and, in American usage, the variety show built around striptease and comedy that grew out of that same impulse.

from From French burlesque, from Italian burlesco, from burla meaning 'joke' or 'mockery' (itself likely from Latin burrae, 'trifles, nonsense'). The word entered English in the 1600s to describe literary mock-heroics — poems that dressed up silly subjects in epic language, or deflated noble ones with crude jokes. The American sense, all feathers and striptease, didn't show up until the 1800s-1900s, when traveling variety shows adopted the name for their own brand of satirical, risqué entertainment — keeping the original wink intact, just adding fewer clothes.