Pantagruel
Americannoun
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(in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
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(italics) a satirical novel (1532) by Rabelais.
noun
Other Word Forms
- Pantagruelian adjective
- Pantagruelically adverb
- Pantagruelism noun
- Pantagruelist noun
Example Sentences
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All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
Yes, I am referring to the 16-century French writer and occasional monk who penned that delightful tale of the misadventures of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2011
Rabelais's 16th-century Gargantua and Pantagruel resembled any number of gargantuan, Rabelaisian 20th-century novels from James Joyce's Ulysses to Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew.
From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010
When we had got rid of these queer visitors we repaired to the parlour, where the morning repast was served up with a profusion worthy of the times of Pantagruel.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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