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fabliau
Short metrical tale made popular in medieval France by jongleurs. Fabliaux were characterized by vivid detail and realistic observation and were usually comic, coarse, and cynical, especially in their treatment of women. Though understandable to the bourgeois and common people, they frequently contain an element of burlesque that depends for its appreciation on considerable knowledge of courtly society, love, and manners. About 150 fabliaux survive, by both amateur and professional writers.
tabla
Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in the chamber music of N India. The higher-pitched dahina is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. The bahina is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum gives it harmonic overtones.
table
Article of furniture used in the Western world since at least the 7th cent. BC, consisting of a flat slab of stone, metal, wood, or glass supported by trestles, legs, or a pillar. Though tables were used in ancient Egypt, Assyria, and Greece, only during the Middle Ages, with the growing formality of life under feudalism, did tables increasingly take on social significance. Tables with attached legs appeared in the 15th cent. The draw top was invented in the 16th cent., making it possible to double the table length. Increasing contact with the East in the 18th cent. led to increasing specialization in the design of occasional tables.
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Inlet, Atlantic Ocean, forming the harbor of Cape Town, S. Africa. It is 12 mi (19 km) long and 8 mi (12 km) wide. Although less sheltered than other bays along the coast, it became a port of call for ships traveling to India and the East because of the availability of fresh water. The shore was permanently settled by the Dutch in 1652.
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