[f. BURLESQUE v. and sb. + -ER1.] a. One who burlesques. b. An actor in burlesque dramas.
1657. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 95. Fifteen poetasters, Half fools, half beggars, half burlesquers.
1751. Shenstone, Wks. & Lett., III. 187. I wish the burlesquers of such ingenuous profusions could be punished.
1869. Daily News, 26 Nov., 5/5. It was at this theatre that Mr. Henderson’s troupe of English burlesquers appeared.
