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| A humorous or "dirty" narrative popular with French poets, who traditionally wrote the story in couplets. Fabliaux often revolve around trickery, practical jokes, sexual mishaps, mistaken identity, and bodily humor. Chaucer included several fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales the Shipman, the Friar, the Miller, the Reeve, and the Cook. | |||