When words have no meaning

[Richard Moody]

> I always love it when a word in a post sends me scrambling to
the
> on-line dictionary.  "fabliau"  great word.
>
> dave
>

And the meaning is....... ?



"A short metrical tale, usually comic, frankly coarse, and often
cynical, popular in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 5th ed 1936

"a short metrical tale of a type chiefly composed by jongleurs for
and about the lower classes; also: the genre of such metrical
tales being usu. comic, frankly coarse, and often cynical esp. in
their treatment of women"

 Webster's Third New International Dictionary


...and a jongleur is.... ?




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> >
> >Nope. He got it right the first time: the "Tail of Tone." Now,
over
> time it
> >has also become a Tale of Tone, but that's another fabliau.
> >
> >Del
> >