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Gargantua

[gahr-gan-choo-uh] / gɑrˈgæn tʃu ə /


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Mustafa Kocyigit, who runs the Gargantua bookshop in Izmir, said the success of Nolan's film has revived interest in Homer and boosted sales of the poem "The Odyssey".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

In 1995, Federated, the department store chain with an appetite like Gargantua, had already taken over Macy’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

These include Thurman Sensing, the conservative who had written about Gargantua.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021

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 Gargantua is the result of a dream.

From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley




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