FABLIAU

  

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FABLIAU

Definition: FABLIAU

FABLIAU

Noun

1. One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Fabliau \Fa`bli`au"\, noun; plural Fabliaux (-[-o]"). [French expression, from the Old French expression fablel, diminutive of fable fable.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: FABLIAU

English words defined with "FABLIAU": Fabliaux. (references)
Specialty definitions using "FABLIAU": Reeves Tale. (references)
Non-English Usage: "FABLIAU" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (story).

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Commercial Usage: FABLIAU

DomainTitle

Books

  • Epopee animale, fable, fabliau : actes du IVe Colloque de la Societe internationale renardienne, Evreux, 7-11 septembre 1981 (reference)

  • Espacio y sociedad en el fabliau de Constant du Hamel (reference)

  • La Chevalerie des sots : le Roman de Fergus, Trubert, fabliau XIIIe siáecle (reference)

  • Le Sauvage et le sot : le fabliau de Trubert et la tradition orale (reference)

  • The Fabliau in English (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FABLIAU

"FABLIAU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FABLIAU" is used about 183 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%18322,794

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: FABLIAU

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "FABLIAU": fabliau-like, fabliau-type.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FABLIAU

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fabliau

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FABLIAU

Language Translations for "fabliau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

abliaufay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

фабльо. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kratka metrička priča. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FABLIAU

Derivations

Words beginning with "FABLIAU": fabliaux. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FABLIAU" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fableaus, fabliaus, fablieu, Ffilmiau. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FABLIAU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-f-i-l-u"

-1 letter: abulia, fibula.

-2 letters: labia.

-3 letters: alba, alfa, alif, baal, bail, fail, fila, flab, flub.

-4 letters: aal, aba, ail, ala, alb, baa, bal, fib, fil, flu, fub, lab, lib.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ai, al, ba, bi, fa, if, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-f-i-l-u"
 

+1 letter: fabliaux.

 

+4 letters: qualifiable.

 

+5 letters: quantifiable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FABLIAU


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 42 4C 49 41 55

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    -...    .-..    ..    .-    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01000010 01001100 01001001 01000001 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#73 &#65 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0042 004C 0049 0041 0055

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40353646433555

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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