Noun: fabliau
| Singular | fabliau |
| Plural | fabliaux |
Sample Sentences
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‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’ [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:]
Nouns inflected like fabliau
batteau,
ghoughphtheightteeau,
carreau,
corbeau,
cordeau,
hachereau,
aboiteau,
marteau,
Carneau,
fabliau,
bateau,
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.