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fabliau

[ fab-lee-oh; French fa-blee-oh ]

noun

, plural fab·li·aux [fab, -lee-ohz, f, a, -blee-, oh].
  1. a short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France.


fabliau

/ fɑblijo; ˈfæblɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fabliau1

1795–1805; < French; Old North French form of Old French fablel, fableau, equivalent to fable fable + -el diminutive suffix; -elle
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fabliau1

C19: from French: a little tale, from fable tale
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Example Sentences

In the Fabliau de Gautier dAupais there is mention of un vert mantel porprine (a mantle of green crimson).

And it is important to repeat that it connects itself in the general literary survey both with fabliau and with allegory.

This, which is not so much a branch as an independent fabliau, is attributed to Rutebœuf, v. infra.

In the opinion of the best scholars, the earliest surviving fabliau is that of Richeut, which dates from 1159.

It is a mistake to suppose, as is frequently done, that every legend of the middle ages is a fabliau.

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