How to pronounce“rabelais”in English

Common language could be a kind of Rabelaisan, carnivalesque, subversive, energetic body of

Now, François Rabelais is yet another Renaissance figure you must keep in mind.

Mijaíl Bajtín, in his book Rabelais gives a great deal of importance to dinners because his metaphor

dinner.' But you risk really sounding snobbish if you say that you had a 'Rabelaisian dinner,' even if you are a Yalie,

Actions or people can be Dantesque, Kafkaesque, Rabelaisian, but are any of these as common

mostly to bureaucracies. Yale's bureaucracy is becoming Kafkaesque, I can assure you of that--'Rabelaisian,' less

common, means uncontrollable appetites, most of the time referring to gluttony: 'He had a Rabelaisian