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 4expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical; or an action that is speedy or practical
Definition:
a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical