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

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

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

Yes, I am referring to the 16-century French writer and occasional monk who penned that delightful tale of the misadventures of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2011

The great literary work of Rabelais is embodied in a series of chronicles, the first of which is called "Gargantua" and the second, "Pantagruel."

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi