Pantagruel
noun
(in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
Pantagruelian
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a word derived from
Pantagruel.
Example Sentences
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All he says of the Pantagruelian herb, though he amply developed it for himself, is taken from Pliny's chapter on flax.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
They culminated in a prodigious but inevitable envelopment of the German armies, De F., more prosaic than the other, dreamt of Pantagruelian repasts liberally furnished with Rhine wines.
From In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry by Marcel Dupont
He would reduce our life to a beautiful unrestricted "Abbey of Thelema," over the gates of which the great Pantagruelian motto "Fay ce que vouldray" would be written in letters of gold.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
I imagine myself as Panurge, taking counsel with a Pantagruelian friend.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
