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Gargantua

[gahr-gan-choo-uh] / gɑrˈgæn tʃu ə /


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At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017

Which key is best for a black hole called Gargantua?

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2014

Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

His striking contrast between what education had been when he was a boy and in his old age, drawn by Gargantua, represents the great advance that took place in education at this time.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.