farce
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9.6
- noun
- /fɑrs/
- Specialized
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- In other words, the expression would then be "Heaven(s), my husband!" as almost certainly used in French farces.
- French farce
Examples
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I've written everything from a farce about fake stigmata to a drama about faith and religion in the 1800s.
Blog text (20) -
The play itself is a pretty tame farce of mistaken identities and promises of marriage if only the parties involved can unravel who is who.
Blog text (10) -
In addition, the nets collected farce quantities.
Academic text (1990) -
Maybe I listened to too much political comedy on the radio when I was only about 11—Air Farce (which was funny then) had a wicked take on Reagan.
Blog text (13) -
Though none of the scripts have survived, descriptions of them make their agitational character clear: Fox, Box, and Nox was "a delicious farce showing how ragged 'rugged individualism' really is."
Academic text (1995) -
It is not as if they noticed accumulating evidence about vaccines that caused them to propose a new syndrome... only later realizing that this syndrome could be creating embarrassing contretemps and accusations of murder against innocent parents, such as happens all the time in French farce.
Blog text (19) -
For dinner, she prepared a delicious turkey stuffed with farce made from ground pork and herbs.
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The recipe calls for a farce of seasoned vegetables and rice to fill the bell peppers.
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He learned how to make a classic farce by combining finely chopped meats and spices into a flavorful stuffing.
Synonyms
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1.8
Very small pieces of meat used for cooking
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1.4
A mixture of breadcrumbs, herbs, and vegetables placed inside meat or vegetables before cooking
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2.0
A seasoned mixture of bread and herbs used to fill meat or poultry before cooking
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9.9
A mix of ground meat and fat used as a filling or to make sausages and pates
Compounds
A light, silly comedy set among rich people that often includes white telephones as a sign of luxury
Surface Forms
Etymology
Farce for a food filling also comes from the French farcir, which means 'to stuff'. So a farce is literally the 'stuffing', a soft mix put inside meat, vegetables, or pasta.