[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:
from Old French (Picard dialect) fabliaux, plural of fablel ‘short fable’, diminutive of fable