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PLEYNDAMOUR is the name of one of the heroes with whom Sir Thopas is compared, Thop 900. Skeat (V: 199) points out that Playn de Amours occurs in Malory's Morte d'Arthur IX.7 as the name of one of the three brothers whom La Cote Mal Taillé meets. Laura H. Loomis notes that no existing manuscript of Tristan records this name, so that it is only conjecture that Malory found the name in an expanded French prose Tristan. [Thopas]

The name, derived from plein d'amour, "full of love," appears in final rhyming position.


L.H. Loomis, S&A, 487.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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