Rabelais

American  

[rab-uh-ley, rab-uh-ley, ra-ble] / ˈræb əˌleɪ, ˌræb əˈleɪ, raˈblɛ /

noun

1. François c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.

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Rabelais British  

/ rablɛ, ˈræbəˌleɪ /

noun

1. François (frɑ̃swa). ?1494–1553, French writer. His written works, esp Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534), contain a lively mixture of earthy wit, common sense, and satire

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Example Sentences

The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2023

On a busy street during the middle of the day, I was witnessing a grotesque and carnivalesque spectacle like something Mikhail Bakhtin would have written about in "Rabelais and His World."

From Salon • May 9, 2022

It will immortalize its author with the same certainty that “Gargantua and Pantagruel” immortalized Rabelais, and “The Brothers Karamazov” Dostoyevsky.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Umberto Eco, the celebrated Bolognese semiotican and Joyce scholar, brings us a new world in the tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevsky, Joyce himself, and Garcia-Marquez.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016

Before returning to Rabelais, let’s consider two hanging wires of equal cross section.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos