Farcement

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    stuffing; forcemeat countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements."

  2. 2
    A mixture of various things crammed together. broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him."

  3. 3
    A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit. countable, uncountable

    "More and more local dishes are being revived nowadays, thanks to the wonderful work of Marie Thérèse Hermann; so look, because more and more country restaurants are sure to reintroduce farcements and farçons in the years to come, and I would not be surprised if a few in the Albertville-Moûtiers axis were to activate regional menus during the 1992 Olympics."

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"They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements."

Etymology

From farce + -ment.

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