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farcement

noun

Etymology

From farce + -ment.

  1. derived from farciō
  2. derived from farsa
  3. derived from farse
  4. inherited from fars,farsse
  5. borrowed from farce — “farce (style of humor); stuffing”
  6. suffixed as farcement — “farce + ment”

Definitions

  1. stuffing

    stuffing; forcemeat

    • They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements.

  2. A mixture of various things crammed together.

    • In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him.
    • The process in the average public school is not education, but farcement, to borrow an old English word — a stuffing of undigested facts into unhealthy children, after the fashion of the geese of Strasburg.

  3. A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or…

    A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.

    • Another convivial and single-course dish that I am thinking of is “farcement”. One of our friends made it for us at the students' residence when my (future) husband and I were studying in Paris.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA