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humoresque
[ hyoo-muh-reskor, often, yoo- ]
noun
- a musical composition of humorous or capricious character.
humoresque
/ ˌhjuːməˈrɛsk /
noun
- a short lively piece of music
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Other Words From
- humor·esquely adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of humoresque1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of humoresque1
C19: from German Humoreske, ultimately from English humour
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Example Sentences
The unearthly beings meet us in all guises, and answer our every mood, whether it be serious or awed, satiric or humoresque.
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But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.
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Heine's "Des Waldes Kapellmeister" has been made into a most hilarious humoresque.
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In short, in nearly every Negro unit there set in a humoresque attitude to the war.
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She played, as once before she had played when life seemed sad and tragic, the "Humoresque."
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