fabliau
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fabliaux
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noun
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Origin of fabliau
1795–1805; < French; Old North French form of Old French fablel, fableau, equivalent to fable fable + -el diminutive suffix; see -elle
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The types are not so distinct but that there is a borderland between the lai and the fabliau in which are found a few examples with the characteristics of each.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
From one point of view, this condemnation of the fabliau is hardly too severe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
The Wright's Chaste Wife is the English fabliau on the subject.
From More English Fairy Tales by John Dickson Batten
In fact, it is in the fabliau that the characteristic which Mr Matthew Arnold selected as the opprobrium of the French in life and literature practically makes its first appearance.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
There is a 13th-century French fabliau, Cocaigne, which was possibly intended to ridicule the fable of the mythical Avalon, “the island of the Blest.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Thus old tales like The Thousand and One Nights, the fabliaux, The Canterbury Tales, the Grimms' folk stories have a magic rarely found in latter ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did I really want to sit there listening to Mr. Grovenor explain for the twentieth time what fabliaux were?
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
The principal authorities for the fabliaux are MM.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Chansons de geste, rhymed romances and fabliaux had long ceased to be written.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
There are few English fabliaux; there is perhaps only one preserved as a separate piece by itself, the story of Dame Sirith.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
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