Deburau is an English word starting with the letter D. With 4 example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Deburau in a sentence
Context around Deburau
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deburau
- In this selection, "deburau" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, baptiste, 1860, 111, played, appeared and seems stand out and add context to how "deburau" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include argument that deburau appeared in and in 1860 deburau was directly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deburau" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deburau
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For details, as well as the argument that Deburau appeared in the pantomime, see Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 41–44. (22 words)
Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p 111. Deburau seems to have had a predilection for "realistic" pantomime See Švehla, pp. 26–32. (22 words)
Adopting the stage-name "Baptiste", Deburau played Pierrot, from about 1819, in a number of types of comic pantomime rustic, melodramatic, "realistic", and fantastic. (24 words)
In 1860, Deburau was directly credited with inspiring such anguish, when, in a novella called Pierrot by Henri Rivière, the mime-protagonist blames his real-life murder of a treacherous Harlequin on Baptiste's "sinister" cruelties. (36 words)
Adopting the stage-name "Baptiste", Deburau played Pierrot, from about 1819, in a number of types of comic pantomime rustic, melodramatic, "realistic", and fantastic. (24 words)
For details, as well as the argument that Deburau appeared in the pantomime, see Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 41–44. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
Adopting the stage-name "Baptiste", Deburau played Pierrot, from about 1819, in a number of types of comic pantomime rustic, melodramatic, "realistic", and fantastic.
For details, as well as the argument that Deburau appeared in the pantomime, see Storey, Pierrots on the stage, pp. 41–44.
In 1860, Deburau was directly credited with inspiring such anguish, when, in a novella called Pierrot by Henri Rivière, the mime-protagonist blames his real-life murder of a treacherous Harlequin on Baptiste's "sinister" cruelties.
Storey, Pierrots on the stage, p 111. Deburau seems to have had a predilection for "realistic" pantomime See Švehla, pp. 26–32.