Rabelaisian

English Alternative forms en Rabelaisan Etymology Calque of en fr rabelaisien. Adjective Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais. en 2006 Todd P. Olson The Street Has Its Masters: Caravaggio and the Socially Maerginal Genevieve Warwick Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception 72 In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word. Possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated or grotesque characters and coarse jokes. en 1889 William George Aston A History of Japanese Literature Book VI, chapter VII, page 343 For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character. en 1945 January and February A Former Pupil Some Memories of Crewe Works—III Railway Magazine 13 The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining. Derived terms en Rabelaisianism Translations pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais French: fr rabelaisien German: de rabelaisisch Italian: it rabelesiano Russian: ru раблезиа́нский possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated characters and coarse jokes en eponyms