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fabliau
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[ˈfablɪəʊ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry
(e.g: one may dispute that the French fabliaux are pornographic)
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Origin
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from Old French (Picard dialect) fabliaux, plural of fablel ‘short fable’, diminutive of fable
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