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fabliau

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fab·li·au  (fbl-)
n. pl. fab·li·aux (-l-, -z)
A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life.
[French, from Old North French, from Old French fablel, diminutive of fable, fable; see fable.]
fabliau [ˈfæblɪˌəʊ (French) fɑblijo]
n pl fabliaux [ˈfæblɪˌəʊz (French) fɑblijo]
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries
[from French: a little tale, from fable tale]


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My first examples illustrate a typical scenario found in short narrative, whether in the fabliau tradition, in the German so-called Volksbuch, or in the Decameron:(25) the beffa, tromperie, or trick that one character plays on another, and, in some cases, the counter-trick played by the tricked character (the trompeur trompe, a version of the contrapasso).
The Renaissance novella as justice by Langer, Ulrich / Renaissance Quarterly
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