fabliau
Noun
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Noun
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, p. 28:
- ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:
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