Gargantua
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an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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(italics) a satirical novel (1534) by Rabelais.
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All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017
Which key is best for a black hole called Gargantua?
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2014
This ambitious weekender begins at Mello Mello on Thursday with Gargantua, an experimental multimedia opera by Ergo Phizmiz, with support from Wyrding Module.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2013
Three years afterwards came Gargantua proper, the first book of the entire work as we now have it.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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