For over 140 years, Epiphone has been crafting instruments that musicians love. And with that much experience, it's fairly easy to understand why their name elicits such passion. Constantly innovating and pushing the building process forward, Epiphone produce guitars that consistently dazzle.
burlesque (plural burlesques) 1  A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody. 2  A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s. 3  A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
If your little sister seems fascinated by the harlequin character in the play you're watching together, it might be because of the brightly colored, diamond-patterned tights he's wearing. A harlequin is a classic comic pantomime character. In traditional pantomime, a comic performance with silent actors, a harlequin is a funny character who wears a mask and a distinctive diamond-patterned costume. The word harlequin sometimes describes bright, many-colored colored things, like a harlequin circus tent.