Etymology

burlesque

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Today it means: Parodical; parodic Full definition →

French burlesque ← Italian burlesco
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromburlesco“parodic”
  2. French · borrowed fromburlesque
  3. English todayburlesque

Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.