Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
Rabelais [rab-uh-ley, rab-uh-ley; French ra-ble] Examples noun
- Fran·çois [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/, c1490–1553, French satirist and humorist.
Examples from the Web for rabelais Contemporary Examples of rabelais
Rabelais wrote Gargantua here, in this city devoted to the most Pantagruelian of pleasures.
The Queen of the French Kitchen
Katie Baker
March 26, 2014
Historical Examples of rabelais
But that man was a praiser of Rabelais, and had been saying, ‘O that we had a Rabelais!’
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete
Albert Bigelow Paine
A comment of Rabelais in his Pantagruel, adds to the general reproach.
Mrs. Reginald de Koven
The laugh is more delicate, but no less hearty than Rabelais’s.
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
Johan Huizinga
H’m, Rabelais merely gives the question, but does not answer it.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2)
Alexandre Dumas pre
Does not Rabelais contend that good wine is the best physic?’
Bernard Blackmantle
British Dictionary definitions for rabelais Rabelais noun
- François (frɑ̃swa). ?1494–1553, French writer. His written works, esp Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534), contain a lively mixture of earthy wit, common sense, and satire