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vaudeville
vaudeville,a light popular song or a stage performance of a light and amusing character interspersed with songs, from vau de vire, in full chanson du Vau de Vire, a song of the Valley of the Vire (in Calvados, Normandy). The name is said to have been first given to songs composed by Olivier Basselin , a fuller of Vire (15th cent.).
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