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fabliau

[fab-lee-oh; Fr. fa-blee-oh]

noun, plural fab·li·aux

[fab-lee-ohz; Fr. fa-blee-oh] .

a short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France.

Origin:
1795–1805; < French; Old North French form of Old French fablel, fableau, equivalent to fable fable + -el diminutive suffix; see -elle

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fabliau (ˈfæblɪˌəʊ, French fɑblijo)

—n , pl fabliaux
	a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries

[C19: from French: a little tale, from fable tale]

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