farceur
a writer or director of or actor in farce.
a joker; wag.
Origin of farceur
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How to use farceur in a sentence
Imagine a shantyman (farceur as he ever was) making for edification in that style!
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties | Richard Runciman TerryThe tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.
Main Street | Sinclair LewisHuysmans the farceur, the Jules Verne of sthetics, is enjoying himself.
Egoists | James HunekerThat half farceur, half ruffian, who had the characteristics of a modern anarchist, was a genius for organization.
Csar or Nothing | Po Baroja BarojaIs Legouv a cold farceur, a Swift, who tried whether France would swallow a new absurdity?
Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry | Charles Baudelaire
British Dictionary definitions for farceur
/ French (farsœr) /
a writer of or performer in farces
a joker
Derived forms of farceur
- farceuse, fem n
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