All 10 Uses
farce
in
A Feast For Crows
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- All they got for it was farce and tragedy.†
p. 104.9
- A bloody farce.†
p. 171.6
- This is more absurd than a mummer's farce, me standing vigil for a father I helped to slay, sending men forth to capture the brother I helped to free ...He had commanded Ser Addam Marbrand to search the Street of Silk.†
p. 175.1
- Has the Crow's Eye agreed to attend this holy farce and abide by its decision?†
p. 234.1
- They have boats instead of horses, and their mummers play out written stories instead of just making up the usual stupid farces.†
p. 309.3 *
- The queen was angry to think that she had kept her small council waiting for this mummer's farce.†
p. 339.6
- Let us have done with this mummer's farce.†
p. 387.8
- I promise you, this mummer's farce of a siege would not have amused him.†
p. 714.5
- Quill, the sad-eyed little man who made up all the bawdy farces for the Ship, offered to teach her how a woman kisses, but Tagganaro smacked him with a codfish and put an end to that.†
p. 725.8
- By the time this mummer's farce was done they would know they had but one true queen.†
p. 917.8
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.