[F. farceur, f. farcer to act farces, f. farce sb.] A joker, wag.
1828. J. P. Cobbett, Tour Italy (1830), 8. This wag, or farceur, as his countrymen would call him … ‘Aha’ exclaimed the farceur.
1877. Lockhart, Mine is Thine, xvii. (1878), II. 21. That rattling talker and farceur.
1884. Standard, 30 Jan., 5/4. Mr. Barnum is a chartered farceur.
