Crossword-Solution: FABLIAU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fabliau | n. | One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MEDIEVAL French poetry | 1 answer |
| Fable | 37 answers |
| Tale | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FABLIAU (5)
Africa therefore was the home of the Beast-fable not as Professor Mahaffy thinks, because it was the chosen land of animal worship, where Oppida tote canem venerantur nemo Dianam;[FN#231] but simply because the Nile-land originated every form of literature between Fabliau and Epos.
This one became monk against right, who would never have been such in his life, if his wife had not deceived him.''[FN#598] The second lady's trick in the fabliau is a very close parallel to the story in The Nights, vol.
The other instance is that of the "Pardoner's Tale," which would appear to have been based on a fabliau now lost, though the substance of it is preserved in an Italian novel, and in one or two other versions.
The story seems to be rather mediæval French than Celtic—a mingling of the spirit of _fabliau_ and popular fairy tale.
The original tale was the sixth novel in the ninth day of the Decameron, and probably was taken by Chaucer from a Fabliau by Jean de Boves, “De Gombert et des Deux Clercs.” The same story has been imitated in the “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,” and in the “Berceau” of La Fontaine.