Gargantua
Example Sentences
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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
This ambitious weekender begins at Mello Mello on Thursday with Gargantua, an experimental multimedia opera by Ergo Phizmiz, with support from Wyrding Module.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
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 the latter this was due to a pirated edition of Pantagruel and Gargantua, which reproduced expressions that Rabelais, in the rising storm of persecution, had been anxious to modify.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
