Gargantua

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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

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

Which key is best for a black hole called Gargantua?

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2014

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

But undoubtedly nothing else of the kind comes so near to the excellences of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George