All 10 Uses
farce
in
A Dance With Dragons
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- Do you have any more to say to me, Onion Knight, or can we put an end to this mummer's farce?†
p. 273.6
- The whole pageant that Lady Melisandre had orchestrated beyond the Wall suddenly seemed as empty as a mummer's farce.†
p. 294.8
- Why not end this farce now and spare us both?†
p. 395.1
- The rancor I showed you in the Merman's Court was a mummer's farce put on to please our friends of Frey.†
p. 427.8 *
- The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.†
p. 429.5
- That was why Roose Bolton had clothed him as a lord again, to play his part in this mummer's farce.†
p. 534.1
- Why did I ever allow myself to be talked into this farce?†
p. 576.1
- So why not send the northmen forth to battle Stannis before the farce unraveled?†
p. 673.7
- The Yunkai'i played us a mummer's farce, with noble Hizdahr as chief mummer.†
p. 955.5
- I ask again, why must we play out this mummer's farce?†
p. 1036.6
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.