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fabliau

fab·li·au [ fáblee  ] (plural fab·li·aux [ fábleez ])


noun 
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comic verse: a comic and often bawdy story in verse, especially of a kind popular in 12th- and 13th-century France

[Early 19th century. < French< plural of Old French fablel "little story" < fable (see fable)]
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