farcements

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
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