roman d'aventuren.

1868 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 212/2 The department of the fableor embraced the Romans d'aventure (in short unstrophied couplets), usually called contes.

1905 Mod. Philol. 2 376 The fresh literary impulse that came with the Normans found little to do with the old Saxon heroes. A few tales were transformed into the lai or chanson de geste or roman d'aventure—Havelock, Horn, Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton.

1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 945/1 The inter-influence of French and English literature can be studied in the Breton romances and the romans d'aventure even better than in the epic poetry of the period.

2004 P. E. Bennett in P. E. Bennett & R. F. Green Singer & Scribe 119 An early thirteenth-century pirate who commanded the French invasion fleet of 1216 and became the subject of a roman d'aventure.