travestv.

Brit.

/ˈtravᵻst/, U.S.

/ˈtrævəst/

Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French travestir; Italian travestire.

Etymology: Apparently < travest- (in either (i) French travestir or (ii) Italian travestire: for both, see travesty adj.), after vest v., invest v., etc. Compare slightly earlier transvest v., and slightly later travesty v., travestied adj. at travesty v. Derivatives.

Now rare.

transitive. To travesty (in various senses); esp. to disguise, parody, or debase. Cf. travesty v.Chiefly as past participle; although the gloss cited in quot. 1656 appears to show the adjective, it is possible that it actually reflects the use of the verb in the past participle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > by caricature

travest1656

travesty1664

travestied1677

caricatured1813

1656 [implied in: T. Blount Glossographia Travested, disguised or shifted in apparel; And metaphorically it may be applyed to any thing that is translated out of one language into another.].

1687 M. Prior & Earl of Halifax Hind & Panther Transvers'd Pref. sig. A3 Homer has been Burlesque'd, and Virgil Travested without suffering any thing in their Reputation from that Buffoonry.

1838 Court Mag. (United series) Sept. 262/1 Two Frenchmen..were convicted..of having travested themselves into wolves by means of an ointment the devil gave them.

1997 J. McDonagh George Eliot i. 28 The narrator assumes the persona of an elderly cleric, travesting herself, a disorderly woman, into a home ideologist.

Derivatives

ˈtravested adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective]

disguisyc1330

disguised1393

visured1577

latent1593

misguised1603

palliate1611

bemasked1620

dissembled1631

travested1656

incognito1676

incog1705

counterfeit1724

unconfessed1743

Waltham1748

camouflaged1918

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Travested, disguised or shifted in apparel; And metaphorically it may be applyed to any thing that is translated out of one language into another.

1675 E. Phillips Theatrum Poetarum (new ed.) 115 His Vein of Burlesque and facetious Poetry, which produc't the Satyr against Hypocrites, and the Travested Metaphrase of two Books of Virgil.

1933 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 1 Feb. 11/5 The America of her love and dreams..was like a house known in childhood, to which one returns after many years and finds travested, shrunken, sordid.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	travest
释义	travestv. Brit. /ˈtravᵻst/, U.S. /ˈtrævəst/ Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French travestir; Italian travestire. Etymology: Apparently < travest- (in either (i) French travestir or (ii) Italian travestire: for both, see travesty adj.), after vest v., invest v., etc. Compare slightly earlier transvest v., and slightly later travesty v., travestied adj. at travesty v. Derivatives. Now rare. transitive. To travesty (in various senses); esp. to disguise, parody, or debase. Cf. travesty v.Chiefly as past participle; although the gloss cited in quot. 1656 appears to show the adjective, it is possible that it actually reflects the use of the verb in the past participle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > by caricature travest1656 travesty1664 travestied1677 caricatured1813 1656 [implied in: T. Blount Glossographia Travested, disguised or shifted in apparel; And metaphorically it may be applyed to any thing that is translated out of one language into another.]. 1687 M. Prior & Earl of Halifax Hind & Panther Transvers'd Pref. sig. A3 Homer has been Burlesque'd, and Virgil Travested without suffering any thing in their Reputation from that Buffoonry. 1838 Court Mag. (United series) Sept. 262/1 Two Frenchmen..were convicted..of having travested themselves into wolves by means of an ointment the devil gave them. 1997 J. McDonagh George Eliot i. 28 The narrator assumes the persona of an elderly cleric, travesting herself, a disorderly woman, into a home ideologist. Derivatives ˈtravested adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective] disguisyc1330 disguised1393 visured1577 latent1593 misguised1603 palliate1611 bemasked1620 dissembled1631 travested1656 incognito1676 incog1705 counterfeit1724 unconfessed1743 Waltham1748 camouflaged1918 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Travested, disguised or shifted in apparel; And metaphorically it may be applyed to any thing that is translated out of one language into another. 1675 E. Phillips Theatrum Poetarum (new ed.) 115 His Vein of Burlesque and facetious Poetry, which produc't the Satyr against Hypocrites, and the Travested Metaphrase of two Books of Virgil. 1933 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 1 Feb. 11/5 The America of her love and dreams..was like a house known in childhood, to which one returns after many years and finds travested, shrunken, sordid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1656
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