The Only Use of
caricature
in
Pygmalion
- There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.†
Act 3
Definition:
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(caricature) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect