fabliau

[ fab-lee-oh; French fa-blee-oh ]

noun,plural fab·li·aux [fab-lee-ohz; French fa-blee-oh]. /ˈfæb liˌoʊz; French fa bliˈoʊ/.
  1. a short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France.

Origin of fabliau

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1795–1805; <French; Old North French form of Old French fablel, fableau, equivalent to fablefable + -el diminutive suffix; see -elle

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fabliau

/ (ˈfæblɪˌəʊ, French fɑblijo) /


nounplural fabliaux (ˈfæblɪˌəʊz, French fɑblijo)
  1. a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries

Origin of fabliau

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C19: from French: a little tale, from fable tale

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