Real name Rajkumar(Prince) Alop, Bhokal appeared first in a seven comic series along with his friends Tureen (with whom he falls in love), Shootan and Atikrur.
Whether named to honour the French military hero Marshal Turenne or related to the earlier word terrine, a borrowing from the French for 'a large, circular, earthenware dish'.
Tureen | tureen | Tom Tureen |
When Galahad first met him, Parsloe was walking around a supper-table at Romano's, wearing a soup-tureen on his head and holding a stick of celery, claiming he was a sentry outside Buckingham Palace.