farcement

Noun

farcement (countable and uncountable, plural farcements)

1. (obsolete) stuffing; forcemeat
   • They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements.1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
2. (broadly, figuratively) A mixture of various things crammed together.
   • In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him.1883, Jacques de Mailles, History of Bayard the Good: Chevalier Sans Peur Et Sans Reproche, page 273
   • 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.1899 December, M.H. Hatfield, “Dynamics of School Puberty”, in Mind and Body, volume 6, number 70, page 222
3. A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.
   • 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...1989, Madeleine Kamman, Madeleine Kamman's Savoie, page 227
   • 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.1992, Reg Butler, Robin Mead, European Ski Resorts, page 48