fabliau

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:

     ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

fabliau m (plural fabliaux)

1. fabliau

• fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “fabliau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau

fabliau m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)

1. fabliau

fabliau m (plural fabliaus)

1. (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)