Also Sc. fraca (Jam.). [a. Fr. fracas, ad. It. fracasso, vbl. sb. f. fracassare to make an uproar.] A disturbance, noisy quarrel, ‘row,’ uproar.

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1727.  Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to C’tess Mar, April. He is Nell Gwin in person, with the sex altered, and occasions such fracas amongst the ladies of gallantry that it passes description.

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1785.  Burns, Scotch Drink, 1.

        Let other Poets raise a fracas
’Bout vines, an’ wines, an’ drunken Bacchus.

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1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxvi. A loud and violent fracas took place between the infantry-colonel and his lady.

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