Meaning of farcement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. stuffing; forcemeat
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A mixture of various things crammed together.
   broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“They spoil⟳ a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements.”

“In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put⟳ to him.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I first ate farcement in a little piste-side restaurant in Les Houches in Chamonix as the snow⟳ bucketed down outside.”

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