fabliau
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.
Noun[edit]
fabliau (plural fabliaux)
- A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 28:
- ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui…’
Translations[edit]
short farcical tale
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fabliau m (plural fabliaux)
See also[edit]
- fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading[edit]
- “fabliau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau
Noun[edit]
fabliau oblique singular, m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fabliau m (plural fabliaus)
- (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)
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