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farcement en · NOUN

Etymology

From farce + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) stuffing; forcemeat
   • They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements. 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable) A mixture of various things crammed together.
   • In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him. 1883, Jacques de Mailles, History of Bayard the Good: Chevalier Sans Peur Et Sans Reproche, page 273:
   • The process in the average public school is not education, but farcement, to borrow an old English word — a stuffing of undigested facts into unhealthy children, after the fashion of the geese of Strasburg. 1899 December, M.H. Hatfield, “Dynamics of School Puberty”, in Mind and Body, volume 6, number 70, page 222:
3. (countable, uncountable) A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.
   • The unwary can come unstuck, however: a friend, told not to miss the farcement of Saint Gervais, struggled manfully through a plateful of this stodgy, Christmas pudding-like dish before learning that the proper way to eat it is to cut off small pieces and fry them. 1992, Reg Butler, Robin Mead, European Ski Resorts, page 48:
   • 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. 1989, Madeleine Kamman, Madeleine Kamman's Savoie, page 227:
   • I first ate farcement in a little piste-side restaurant in Les Houches in Chamonix as the snow bucketed down outside. 2021, Lizzie Kamenetzky, Fireside Food for Cold Winter Night:
   • Another convivial and single-course dish that I am thinking of is “farcement”. One of our friends made it for us at the students' residence when my (future) husband and I were studying in Paris. 2019, Christine Cappio, Gweimui’s Hong Kong Wet Markets:

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