fabliau

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable

Noun [edit]

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

  1. The genre of short, farcical often coarse tales written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

Translations [edit]

genre of short farcical tales

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable

Noun [edit]

fabliau m (plural fabliaux)

  1. fabliau

See also [edit]

Old French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau

Noun [edit]

fabliau m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)

  1. fabliau
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