fabliau
English
Etymology
Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable
Noun
fabliau (plural fabliaux)
- A short, farcical, often coarse tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
Translations
short farcical tale
French
Etymology
Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable
Noun
fabliau m (plural fabliaux)
See also
Further reading
- “fabliau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau
Noun
fabliau m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)
Portuguese
Noun
fabliau m (plural fabliaus)
- (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)
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