"Vaudeville"
From French vaudeville, from Old French vaudevire, a shorteningof chanson du Vau de Vire (song of the Valley of Vire), from Vire, a valley of Calvados, Normandy in France where satirical folk songs were composed by Olivier Basselin in the fifteenth century
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Calvados you say? I couldn't possibly.
I think Calvados may in fact be responsible for this etymology. It's basically just someone slurring all the words together non? I spy a plan.
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