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Definition of Farses
1. farse [v] - See also: farse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farses
Literary usage of Farses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Cities of the Middle Ages; Or, The Landmarks of European by Theodore Alois Buckley (1853)
"of Moorish art; they intended to have destroyed them all at one fell swoop, as
their parting legacy, out their agent, Don Antonio farses, ..."
2. The Elements of Plainsong: Compiled from a Series of Lectures Delivered by Henry Bremridge Briggs (1895)
"The accentuation of the various farses set to the same melody differs so greatly
that it seems probable the Latin accents were adapted to those of the music ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1811)
"The haughty message of farses was an offer, not of peace, but of pardon, he answer
of the Gothic king declared his reso- ition to die or conquer* " What day ..."
4. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"See waters, marshes, farses and heath," 18. That the law, while applying meadows,
pastures, woods, moors, Blackstone's Commentaries, Bk. II, p discussing ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1839)
"... ami vir- gyn wax ; all this mye smal, and farse the catte within als thu farses
a gos, rost his hale, and geder the grees and ..."
6. Dramatic Traditions of the Dark Ages by Joseph Salathiel Tunison (1907)
"... or joueurs de farses—he admitted that, as they played publicly for money,
their infamy, legally considered, was unquestionable. ..."
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