词汇 | farce |
词源 | farce [LME] Farce was an adoption of a French word meaning ‘stuffing’, its first sense in English. It took on its modern English meaning [M16th] when applied to comic interludes which were ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays. From this the term was used for a complete comic play[M16th], these days one that involves a lot of slapstick. See also interlude. |
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