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Gargantua royal giant who required 17,913 cows for personal milk supply. [Fr. Lit.: Gargantua and Pantagruel] See : Giantism Gargantua enormous eater who ate salad lettuces as big as walnut trees. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Handbook, 406] See : Gluttony How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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of meat; and one must have the stomach of a Gargantua to demolish some dozens of them. The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls--in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite--say, "such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world"; the other by the chapel where Louis XI. |
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