Usually means: Humorous, often ribald medieval short stories.
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  1. fabliaux: Merriam-Webster
  2. fabliaux: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fabliaux: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Fabliaux, fabliaux: Wordnik
  5. fabliaux: Wiktionary
  6. Fabliaux, fabliaux: Dictionary.com
  7. Fabliaux: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Fabliaux: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Fabliaux: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. fabliaux: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fabliaux: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Fabliaux: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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▸ noun:  A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
▸ Also see fabliau


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