Contes and Tales

Contes

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Tales and contes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tales" instead a noun "Contes".

Tales

Definitions of Contes not found.

Contes and tales are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contes" instead a noun "Tales".

Both words in one sentence

  • Jacques Offenbach left his opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) unfinished when he died in 1880.
  • Fairy Tale The name of the genre can be traced to Madame d'Aulnoy's Les Contes de Fées, which appeared only after literary fairy tales became all the rage.
    Source: Fairy Tale
  • Our Fairies Are Different Fairy Tales often involve fairies, at least they do nowadays, but that term comes from Madame d'Aulnoy's Les Contes de Fées.
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