Fabliau is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 103 anagrams from letters in fabliau (aabfilu).
1795-1805; French; Old North French form of Old French fablel, fableau, equivalent to fable fable + -el diminutive suffix; see -elle
From one point of view, this condemnation of the fabliau is hardly too severe.
It is given by John of Bromyard, and is the subject of a fabliau which is given by Meon.
This suggests the likelihood of a source which combined traits of both lai and fabliau: Warnatsch, pp 62-64.
Three versions of the fabliau testify that Carados and his amie deposited the mantle in a Welsh abbey.
The special period of fabliau composition appears to have been the 12th and 13th centuries.
From the end of one comes many a tearful tragedy; from that of the other nought can be made but a fabliau.
The dramatic germ contained in the fabliau and quickened by the mystery produces the profane drama.
But there is nothing in previous literature which exactly corresponds to the fabliau.
Warnatsch (who has also made this last remark) has noted other agreements between lai and fabliau, p. 61.
The fabliau takes every phase of life for its subject; the folk-song acquires elegance and does not lose raciness and truth.
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