canterbury tales

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   an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Questions about canterbury tales

What does canterbury tales mean?

canterbury tales means "an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer".

Is canterbury tales a common word?

canterbury tales is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.