Absolon
Absolon, a priggish parish clerk in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. His hair was curled, his shoes slashed, his hose red. He could let blood, cut hair, and shave, could dance, and play either on the ribible or the gittern. This gay spark paid his addresses to Mistress Alison, the young wife of John, a wealthy aged carpenter; but Alison herself loved a poor scholar named Nicholas, a lodger in the house. --The Miller's Tale (1388).
The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories and Poems
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1899
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Absolon: the parish clerk and a suitor for he hand of Alison.
--Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale.
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