All 3 Uses
farce
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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- Camila could only assume that the Marquesa, out of a sort of fantastic magnanimity, was playing the farce of not having noticed it.†
Chpt 2
- They only put on the Old Comedy twice a week; all the other nights there are these new farces in prose.†
Chpt 4 *
- The audiences come for the prose farces.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(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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(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.