Gargantua

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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

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

Yes, I am referring to the 16-century French writer and occasional monk who penned that delightful tale of the misadventures of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2011

The former is awkward, bashful, and does not know what to say, while the latter meets Gargantua cap in hand, with open countenance, ruddy lips, steady eyes, and with modesty becoming a youth.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi