Meanings
nounfarceur (plural farceurs)
plural farceurs
- A person who writes farces, or who performs in them.
[…] 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.
1987 August 22, Tom Grabosky, “Who Hears an Orton?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 7
Origin
- Frenchfarceur
- Englishfarceur
Unadapted borrowing from French farceur.
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Rhymes with farceur
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APA
farceur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farceur
MLA
“farceur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farceur. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “farceur,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farceur.
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