farceur
Americannoun
plural
farceurs-
a writer or director of or actor in farce.
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a joker; wag.
noun
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a writer of or performer in farces
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a joker
Other Word Forms
- farceuse noun
Etymology
Origin of farceur
1775–85; < French, Middle French, equivalent to farc ( er ) to joke, banter (derivative of farce farce ) + -eur -eur
Example Sentences
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He began as the disillusioned farceur of “Roger & Me,” in 1989.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020
John Cleese told the Today programme that Sachs was a "sweet man" and a "brilliant farceur".
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" earned the ever-outrageous farceur Christopher Durang the Tony Award, a capstone to a career in hilarity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2016
Photograph: PA The acting career of Elspet Gray, who has died aged 83, was obscured but not extinguished by being so closely bound up with her marriage to the farceur Brian Rix.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2013
So drole, too, such a farceur and mimic.
From Stories in Light and Shadow by Harte, Bret
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