Rabelaisian

Definition

Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais.

Etymology

Calque of French rabelaisien.

Example Sentences

• "In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word."
• "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."
• "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."