We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
fableur (1155)

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

fableur (1155)

 
  FEW:  fabulari 3,345b Gdf:  fableor 3,691b GdfC: TL: fablëor 3,1545 DEAF:  fabler (fablëor) F14 DMF:  fableur  TLF: OED:  fabler n.  MED:  fabler n.  DMLBS:  fabulator 885c

s.

1story-teller, teller of (fictitious) tales
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tant unt li cunteur cunté E li fableur tant flablé [sic] Pur lur cuntes enbeleter, Que tut unt fait fable sembler  9796
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ja ne prendra mes terme ly nostre grant labur Tant cum Alisandre trovera novel fableur  6009
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Autres figures prist plusurs, Sicume le cuntent ces fableurs, Dunt il deceveit les puceles E autres femmes que il vit beles  11192
2pej.teller of untruths, fiction-monger
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Ki autrement le dit, fableur est mentant, E a ço pruver sui prest ploier le gant  835

See also:

fable1  fabler 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
fableur