Dictionary entry

Travesty (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Trav″es‐ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Travestied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Travesting.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.