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noun

Farce n.

(Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. "Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false."

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state."

verb

Farce v. t. (past & past part. farced, pres. part. farcing)

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. (Obs.) "The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets." "His tippet was aye farsed full of knives."

To render fat. (Obs.) "If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs."

To swell out; to render pompous. (Obs.) "Farcing his letter with fustian."

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"Farce" Quotes from Famous Books

... on Monday. Call upon Mr. Morille same day. Leave card at Colonel Digby's on Tuesday. Theatre Friday night—Richard III. and new farce. Present letter at Miss L——'s on Tuesday. Call on Sampson & Wilt, Friday. Get my draft on London cashed. Write home by the Princess. Letter bag ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... of the more popular places, was crowded; and the boisterous absurdity of the farce was at its height. Rainham at first felt quite disconcerted by the proximity of the ludicrous figure in bathing dress who was leaning over the footlights, and declaiming his woes with a directness of appeal to the audience which alone would have marked ...

— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... neighborhood of Aix, had had occasion to visit the grotto of Ceyzeriat, recently adopted as the meeting-place of the Companions of Jehu. At the preceding meetings he had occasion to explore only the windings and intricacies of the Chartreuse of Seillon, which he now knew so well that in the farce played before Roland the part of ghost was intrusted to him. Everything was, therefore, curious and unknown to him in this new domicile, where he now expected to take his first sleep, and which seemed likely to be, for some ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas

... But now here is Michael showing that he has got tastes. Can you wonder that I'm delighted? And not only has he got tastes, but he has the strength of character to back them. Michael, in the Guards too! It was a perfect farce, and he's had the sense to see it. He hated his duties, and he hated his diversions. ...

— Michael • E. F. Benson

... laugh. Then what is it that the world outside must have laughed with a very self-conscious wisdom? Its laughter was nothing to us then, and to-day is to me as nothing. Is it not always ready to weep at a farce and ...

— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope

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