fabliau in English
noun
1
a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry.
‘The Reeve's Tale’ is a fabliau about two clerks who are robbed by a miller of some of the meal which they take to his mill to be ground, and who take their vengeance by sleeping with the miller's wife and daughter.
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