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Charade

noun

A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty.

A word acted out in an episode of the game of charades.

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"Charade" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tuesdays, and go on with your Lecky; and I will keep a copy at home, and read up with you. And I will bring Lillie in the evening, after the reading is over; and we will have a little music and lively talk, and a dance or charade, you know: then perhaps her mind will ...

— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... without real artistic value, though undoubtedly pretty and graceful. It was a mere acted charade of the 'Finding of Moses,' got up impromptu as it were; the ladies being in ball-room attire, with high powdered heads, strung with pearls and surmounted with feathers; their silken dresses trimmed with laces, and frills, and furbelows; their faces well whitened and rouged, according to ...

— Art in England - Notes and Studies • Dutton Cook

Words linked to "Charade" : caricature, takeoff, impersonation, word, imitation, put-on