Princesse lointaine
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A princess lointaine or princesse lointaine, (in French, "distant princess") is a stock character of an unattainable loved figure. The name comes from the play La Princesse Lointaine by
Hodierna of Tripoli
. Amour de loin ("Love from long away") is a term used in romances and their study.
The term has been used subsequently to refer to women whose chief characteristic as
love interests
has been their unattainability. It may also be used metaphorically for unattainable objects or targets of various sorts.
At times, the idealised lady of
which?] told of men who had fallen in love with women whom they had never seen, merely on hearing their perfection described, but normally she was not so distant. As the etiquette of courtly love became more complicated, the knight might wear the colors of his lady: where blue or black were sometimes the colors of faithfulness, green could be a sign of unfaithfulness. Salvation
, previously found in the hands of the priesthood, now came from the hands of one's lady. In some cases, there were also women troubadours who expressed the same sentiment for men.
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