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Travesty

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Travesty 

a stage role. In the dramatic theater, the term refers to an actress who performs the roles of young boys and girls and of adolescents, as well as roles in which a woman is disguised in a man’s clothing. In opera, the term refers to a mezzo-soprano or contralto who performs the parts of young men.
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Heaven knows what gaudy sentimental parade we made in our borrowed plumes, but if the travesty had kept itself to the written word it would have been all well enough.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
What was this instrument--ticking away here in the great Sahara--but a travesty upon the possible!
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It even prevailed over the miserable travesty of the song of David which the singer had selected from a volume of similar effusions, and caused the sense to be forgotten in the insinuating harmony of the sounds.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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