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Definition of: fabliau
(fab′lē·ō, Fr. fá·blē·ō′) noun plural ·aux (-ōz, Fr. -ō′)
A short, comic or gay tale, usually in eight-syllable verse: the genre which arose in France in the 12th and 13th centuries. [<F, ult. <OF fable. See FABLE.]
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