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plural fabliaux
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. quotations examples
‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui…’
1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, page 28