Gargantua
Example Sentences
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All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
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
In 1552, in a list of fantastical desserts in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, we find hard written evidence that the word macaron meant a dessert.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2011
“Friar John” is a mighty man of valor, who figures equivocally in the story of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
