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

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

It certainly came well after Renaissance writer François Rabelais – who revelled in Lyon’s culinary traditions, depicting the tawdry delights of offal and cheap cuts in Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From The Guardian

Many doctors, too, have written fiction, quite a long and interesting list, among them Rabelais, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Céline and William Carlos Williams, all practicing physicians who were also writing.

From New York Times

Read Rabelais, he says, to see that French itself was built on patois and vernacular tongues.

From Economist