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

Example Sentences

The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre.

From Seattle Times

This is quite different from the world of Rabelais.

From Literature

All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Washington Post

It certainly came well after Renaissance writer François Rabelais – who revelled in Lyon’s culinary traditions, depicting the tawdry delights of offal and cheap cuts in Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From The Guardian

Many doctors, too, have written fiction, quite a long and interesting list, among them Rabelais, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Céline and William Carlos Williams, all practicing physicians who were also writing.

From New York Times