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TRAVESTIE [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Theatre and Opera
  • Variety Shows and Circuses
DEF

A woman who dresses as a man and impersonates male characteristics for theatrical purposes.

CONT

... the male impersonator attempts to produce a plausible performance of maleness as the whole of her act ...

OBS

Male impersonation has been a theatrical genre for at least two hundred years, but the drag king is a recent phenomenon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théâtre et Opéra
  • Spectacles de variétés et Cirque

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teatro y Ópera
  • Espectáculos de variedades y Circo
CONT

[La] novela de corte almodovariano titulada Tesis de una domesticación [...] narra la historia de una actriz travesti que adopta a un niño seropositivo junto a su pareja homosexual.

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Record 2 2024-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
DEF

A person who permanently or occasionally presents a gender expression different from the one associated with their usual gender.

OBS

cross-dresser: Some people consider the term "cross-dresser" outdated and derogatory. Most people who would once have identified as such now generally identify as non-binary or transgender.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Sociologie
DEF

Personne qui, de manière permanente ou occasionnelle, présente une expression de genre différente de celle qui est associée à son genre habituel.

OBS

Certaines personnes considèrent les termes «travesti» ou «travestie» comme désuets et péjoratifs. La plupart des personnes qui se seraient autrefois identifiées comme telles s’identifient aujourd’hui généralement comme non binaires ou transgenres.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología
  • Sociología
DEF

Persona, generalmente hombre, que se viste y se caracteriza como alguien del sexo contrario.

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Record 3 2011-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
DEF

A pitching technique: breaking the sequence by throwing a slow pitch after a series of fast pitches while using the same motion as for the fast balls, to catch the batter and have a strike called against him.

OBS

The technique is called "change of pace", "change-up" or "letup", while the ball so thrown is referred to as a "letup ball" or "letup pitch". Do not confuse the technique and the ball thrown using the technique.

OBS

Some speed can also be taken off a curve ball and used as a change of pace.

Key term(s)
  • changing of pace
  • letup ball
  • letup pitch

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
DEF

Technique par laquelle le lanceur modifie la vitesse à laquelle il envoie la balle de façon à décontenancer le frappeur.

OBS

Ne pas confondre la technique, celle du changement de vitesse, et la balle ainsi lancée, une «balle avec changement de vitesse».

Key term(s)
  • balle travestie
  • balle à changement de vitesse
  • balle avec changement de vitesse

Spanish

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