French: topographic name for someone who lived by a quickset fence,
Old French pleis (from Latin plexum past participle of
plectere ‘plait’, ‘weave’), with fused preposition and definite
article du ‘from the’. This is a Huguenot name, well
established in South Africa and elsewhere.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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