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fabliau
[ fab-lee-oh; French fa-blee-oh ]
/ ˈfæb liˌoʊ; French fa bliˈoʊ /
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noun, plural fab·li·aux [fab-lee-ohz; French fa-blee-oh]. /ˈfæb liˌoʊz; French fa bliˈoʊ/.
a short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France.
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fabliau
/ (ˈfæblɪˌəʊ, French fɑblijo) /
noun plural fabliaux (ˈfæblɪˌəʊz, French fɑblijo)
a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries
Word Origin for fabliau
C19: from French: a little tale, from fable tale
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