In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.
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Rabelaisian
Synonyms for "rabelaisian" (66 found)
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Related words (33)
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4 entriesTranslations
4 translations across 4 languages.
French
1 entries- rabelaisien adj (pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais)
German
1 entries- rabelaisisch adj (pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais)
Italian
1 entries- rabelesiano adj (pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais)
Russian
1 entries- раблезиа́нский adj (pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.
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