Usually means: Humorous, often bawdy, medieval tale.
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  1. fabliau: Merriam-Webster
  2. fabliau: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fabliau: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fabliau: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fabliau: Wordnik
  6. fabliau: Wiktionary
  7. fabliau: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fabliau: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Fabliau, fabliau: Dictionary.com
  10. Fabliau: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Fabliau: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. fabliau: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Fabliau: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. fabliau: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fabliau: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FABLIAU: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fabliau: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fabliau)

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

Similar:
fabling, novel, chantefable, fabulate, fabula, fableist, fibbery, fabulation, farcetta, farcist, more...

Opposite:
tragedy, drama, epic

Adjectives:
french, old, medieval, century, english, typical, known, ancient, coarse, mediaeval, earliest

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Similar:
fabling, novel, chantefable, fabulate, fabula, fableist, fibbery, fabulation, farcetta, farcist, more...

Opposite:
tragedy, drama, epic

Adjectives:
french, old, medieval, century, english, typical, known, ancient, coarse, mediaeval, earliest



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