All 3 Uses
farce
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Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- It was truly the most open farce, and I wondered that the lawyer should care to keep it up; but, after all, it was quite in the taste of that age, when there were two parties in the state, and quiet persons, with no very high opinions of their own, sought out every cranny to avoid offence to either.†
Chpt 27
- The scene must have been highly farcical.†
Chpt 28 *
- "Why," he cries, "if this be not a farcical adventure!†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(farce) a ridiculous, exaggerated situation too absurd to be taken seriously; or a type of comedy that relies on absurd humor, using physical slapstick, unlikely situations, and deliberate misunderstandings
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, farce can reference a seasoned stuffing typically put in roasted turkey; or it can reference the act of stuffing a turkey.