farceur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French farceur.
Noun
[edit]farceur (plural farceurs)
- A person who writes farces, or who performs in them.
- 1987 August 22, Tom Grabosky, “Who Hears an Orton?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 7:
- […] and as always, the best avenue for resolving rage is positive action. For the playwright, this has and does often take the form of satire, and perhaps the most outstanding farceur of the '60s was Joe Orton.
- A farcical comedian.
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]farceur m (plural farceurs, feminine farceuse)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “farceur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “farceur” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
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