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Pelles

British  
/ ˈpɛliːz /

noun

  1. (in Arthurian legend) the father of Elaine and one of the searchers for the Holy Grail

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He drove us to New York often, where we’d use to get our Pelle Pelles and now Avirexs.

From Salon

Guinevere — so far from the shy and delicate “white shadow” of Sutcliff or Lancelyn Green — leads her own all-female mercenary band, hired to take out King Pelles.

From Washington Post

“God be good to him,” said King Pelles.

From Literature

“When we left the castle of Vagon... Ye mind we rode to Vagon in a body, the first day, and aye dispairsed next morn? When we left thence, I raid north-west It didna signify which way. Lancelot gave all men the hint the day before we scattered, that aukt King Pelles mentioned him a sacred dish one time, in yin of his great castles. He didna cleave importance tae it but told the people for its worth. The best half went in that deerection, but I didna fash masel’.

From Literature

King Pelles was promising a new cloak all round, on him.

From Literature