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" (71 found)
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More general
2 entriesadjectiveliterary descriptor
More specific
5 entriesboisterous satirecarnivalesque styleearthy satiregrotesque humorribald tone
Collocations
5 entriesrabelaisian bawdinessrabelaisian exuberancerabelaisian humorrabelaisian satirerabelaisian tone
Inflections
2 entriesmore rabelaisianmost rabelaisian
Derivations
2 entriesSample 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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