Vaudeville vs Camembert - What's the difference?
vaudeville | camembert |
(historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
(historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Ben Brantley, title=Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe, work=New York Times
, passage=“Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes. }}
As a noun vaudeville
is (historical|uncountable) a style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in north america from the 1880s through the 1920s.As a proper noun camembert is
a village in basse-normandie, france, famous for being the place where camembert cheese was invented.vaudeville
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