1. diable - Noun
2. diable - Adjective
diable (plural diables)
An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
diable (not comparable)
(postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.
sauce diable
Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead! Charles Reade
Il n'y a point d'église où le diable n'ait sa chapelle. French Proverb
' After Meyerbeer 's successful opera Robert le Diable (1831), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery. Source: Internet
Arden Shakespeare introduction and text of A Midsummer Night's Dream After Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable (1831), neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery. Source: Internet
There were larger-than-life villains in popular literature before comic books: Prof. Moriarty, Dr. Fu Manchu, and, as far back as 1862, Jean Diable. Source: Internet