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Pantagruel
[pan-tag-roo-el, -uhl, pan-tuh-groo-uhl, pah
noun
(in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
(italics)Ìýa satirical novel (1532) by Rabelais.
Pantagruel
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noun
a gigantic prince, noted for his ironical buffoonery, in Rabelais' satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- Pantagruelian adjective
- Pantagruelically adverb
- Pantagruelism noun
- Pantagruelist noun
- ËŒ±Ê²¹²Ô³Ù²¹²µ°ù³Üˈ±ð±ô¾±²¹²Ô adjective
- ËŒ±Ê²¹²Ô³Ù²¹Ëˆ²µ°ù³Ü±ð±ôËŒ¾±²õ³¾ noun
- ËŒ±Ê²¹²Ô³Ù²¹Ëˆ²µ°ù³Ü±ð±ô¾±²õ³Ù noun
Example Sentences
One year, my family gave me the entire Penguin Classics library and some of it is rough sledding, like “Gargantua and Pantagruel.â€
It will immortalize its author with the same certainty that “Gargantua and Pantagruel†immortalized Rabelais, and “The Brothers Karamazov†Dostoyevsky.
All these initial chapters of “Monkey King†exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
It certainly came well after Renaissance writer François Rabelais – who revelled in Lyon’s culinary traditions, depicting the tawdry delights of offal and cheap cuts in Gargantua and Pantagruel.
The artist showed lithographs from a project called “The Horrible & Terrible Deeds & 51³Ô¹Ïs of the Very Renowned Trumpagruel,†which was inspired by François Rabelais’s 16th-century Gargantua and Pantagruel, a satirical tale about a pair of giants.
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