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PERKYN REVELOUR is the main character in the Cook's unfinished tale. His name indicates his main activities: dancing and wenching, CoT 4365-4422. [Roger2]

Perkyn is the diminutive of Peter; Revelour, a kind of surname, means "reveler." Perkyn appears twice in medial positions, CoT 4371, 4387.


From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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