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Rabelaisian

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais.

    "In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word."

  2. 2
    Possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated or grotesque characters and coarse jokes.

    "For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of Francois Rabelais or his works wordnet

Etymology

Calque of French rabelaisien.

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