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noun - a short metrical tale popular in medieval France
FABLIAU - A fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca. 1150 and 1400. They are generally c...
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Bawdy French story – an old one, at that |
Left one with gold after wonderful bawdy tale |
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Aug 3 2012 The Times - Specialist |
Mar 22 2008 The Times - Cryptic |
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A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life. |
A metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry. |
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A fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudescontrary to the church and to the nobility. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. Some 150 French fabliaux are extant, the number depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined. According to R. Howard Bloch, fabliaux are the first expression of literary realism in Europe.Some nineteenth-century scholars, most notably Gaston Paris, argue that fabliaux originally came from the Orient and were brought to the West by returning crusaders |