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Pantagruel
[ pan-tag-roo-el, -uhl, pan-tuh-groo-uhl; French pahn-ta-gry-el ]
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) a satirical novel (1532) by Rabelais.
Pantagruel
/ æˈæɡːɛ /
noun
- a gigantic prince, noted for his ironical buffoonery, in Rabelais' satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
Derived Forms
- ˌʲԳٲˈ, adjective
- ˌʲԳٲˈܱˌ, noun
- ˌʲԳٲˈܱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ʲ·ٲ···· [pan-t, uh, -groo-, el, -ee-, uh, n], adjective
- ʲt··i·· adverb
- ʲ·ٲ··· [pan-t, uh, -, groo, -, uh, -liz-, uh, m, pan-, tag, -roo-, uh, -liz-, uh, m], noun
- ʲt·ı· 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.”
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 & yvlogs 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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