fabliau
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fabliau
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Learned borrowing from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.
noun fabliaux
- A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’
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Talk about this word "fabliau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fabliau. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. fabliau. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fabliau "fabliau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fabliau.
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@misc{fabliau_2026,
title = {fabliau},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fabliau},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
