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Gargantua

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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
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of meat; and one must have the stomach of a Gargantua to demolish some dozens of them.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
 
 
 
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