fabliau
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English
Etymology
From Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.
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 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:
- ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’
Translations
short farcical tale
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.
Pronunciation
Noun
fabliau m (plural fabliaux)
See also
fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading
- “fabliau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau
Noun
fabliau oblique singular, m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)
Portuguese
Etymology
Noun
fabliau m (plural fabliaus)
- (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)