Fabliauとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:

     ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’