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ˈfæb liˌoʊ; -liˌoʊz, -liˌoʊfa·bli·au
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fabliaunoun
The genre of short, farcical often coarse tales written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
Etymology: fabliau, diminutive of fable
Wikipedia
Fabliau
A fabliau (French pronunciation: [fabljo]; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined. According to R. Howard Bloch, fabliaux are the first expression of literary realism in Europe.Some nineteenth-century scholars, most notably Gaston Paris, argue that fabliaux originally came from the Orient and were brought to the West by returning crusaders.
Webster Dictionary
Fabliaunoun
one of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France
Etymology: [F., fr. OF.fablel, dim. of fable a fable.]
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Fabliau
A fabliau is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by an excessiveness of sexual and scatological obscenity. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined. According to R. Howard Bloch, fabliaux are the first expression of literary realism in Europe. Fabliaux originally come from the Orient and were brought to the West by returning crusaders; from fabliaux comes the French drama.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fabliau
fab-li-ō′, n. one of a group of over a hundred metrical tales, usually satirical in quality, produced in France from about the middle of the 12th to the end of the 13th century:—pl. Fab′liaux. [Fr.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fabliau in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fabliau in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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