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Word: Farce
Speech Type: Noun
early 16th century: from French, literally ‘stuffing’, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage
fɑːs
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
Short Definition:comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay
Examples:- he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces
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