farceurs
- plural of farceur.
Example Sentences
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In Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play,” which opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons, the familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting from expert farceurs.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018
I mean the sort of tickling administered by a team of master farceurs who frisk you into a state of sustained laughter, as involuntary and contented as the purr of a kitten at play.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2018
The movie also provides solid evidence that at least two gifted farceurs can display emotional range well beyond the demands of a Lorne Michaels’ skit-com.
From Time • Sep. 9, 2014
One wonders what American farceurs would make of Richard Bean's adapted script, and I feel assured that some enterprising Seattle theater will have a go at it.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2012
The text of Mountfort's "Dr. Faustus" reveals that his farce, like any, must depend to a great extent on its farceurs.
From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by Mountfort, William
