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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Mustafa Kocyigit, who runs the Gargantua bookshop in Izmir, said the success of Nolan's film has revived interest in Homer and boosted sales of the poem "The Odyssey".
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019
The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Melville's Moby-Dick and Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time – these works spoke paradoxically directly to me in their very sense of indirection.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
And, when Gargantua whiffed the great draught, they thought to have drowned in his mouth, and the flood of 35 wine had almost carried them away into the gulf of his stomach.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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