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Fabliau

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

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