Lexicographical Neighbors of Farcer
Literary usage of Farcer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1782)
"PREVIOUS to the marriage of George Savage with Frances Previous to the farcer,
articles were executed bearing date the iith of ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"ft.farcer ; Italian ... stuffed with wild and ludicrous conceits,' as Dr.
Johnson says ; but the old French verb farcer signifies to mock or laugh at. ..."
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