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Rabelais

[ rab-uh-ley, rab-uh-ley; French ra-ble ]

noun

  1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.


Rabelais

/ rablɛ; ˈræbəˌleɪ /

noun

  1. RabelaisFrançois?14941553MFrenchWRITING: writer François (frɑ̃swa). ?1494–1553, French writer. His written works, esp Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534), contain a lively mixture of earthy wit, common sense, and satire
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Rabelais wrote Gargantua here, in this city devoted to the most Pantagruelian of pleasures.

Rabelais was not more cunning when he hit upon his stratagem for getting carried to Paris.

Aristophanes has furnished jests for Rabelais, hints to Swift, and humor for Molière.

The name was enough; they could not dine elsewhere, and Ambrose felt that he was honouring the memory of the great Rabelais.

A scurvy trick; yet, as Master Rabelais says, Pantagruelians select not their bed.

Motteux, in his “Rabelais,” is the first to use “by jingo,” translating par dieu.

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RabeRabelais, François