Pantagruelian
- 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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
It was our little man of the Pantagruelian banquet.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
The world of books is no puritanical bourgeois-ridden democracy; it is a large free country, a great Pantagruelian Utopia, ruled by noble kings.
From One Hundred Best Books by Powys, John Cowper
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 Goldman, Emma
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 Powys, John Cowper
