Fabliau n. : One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.

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Taxonomy
fabliaux, fabliau, The Butcher, priest, deacon, hunchbacks, maid, priest's wife, poem, cuckolded husband, hunchback, Wild Dream, canal, bishop, sheepskin, fleece, narrator, drawers.

Defination from the web:
fabliau (plural fabliaux or "'fablieaux'") is a comic, usually anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France circa the 13th Century. ... Molière, Jean de La Fontaine and Voltaire owe much to the tradition of the fabliau, in their prose works as well as in their poetry. ...