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fabliaux

fabliaux is the plural of fabliau.

Meaning of fabliau

Noun

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

  1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
    • ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19

Questions about fabliaux

What is fabliaux the plural of?
Fabliaux is the plural of fabliau.

Words near fabliaux in the dictionary

  1. fabler
  2. fablers
  3. fables
  4. fabless
  5. fabliau
  6. fabliaux
  7. fabling
  8. fablings
  9. fablist
  10. fablists
  11. Fablon

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