Definition of fabliau Fabliau

fab•li•au

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What does fabliau mean?

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  • fabliau (Noun)
    The genre of short, farcical often coarse tales written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • fabliau (n.)
    One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • fabliau
    fab-li-ō′, n. one of a group of over a hundred metrical tales, usually satirical in quality, produced in France from about the middle of the 12th to the end of the 13th century:—pl. Fab′liaux. [Fr.]

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