Both Uses of
expedient
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Here are six excellent expedients!
Act 3 *expedients = actions that are speedy or practical
- — When I thought of the good expedient To loosen and let fall the scarf which told My military rank; thus I contrived —Without attention waked—to leave the foes, And suddenly returning, reinforced With my own men, to scatter them!†
Act 4
Definition:
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(expedient) a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical