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knight-errant

[ nahyt-er-uhnt ]

noun

plural knights-errant.
  1. a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.


knight errant

noun

  1. (esp in medieval romance) a knight who wanders in search of deeds of courage, chivalry, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of knight-errant1

Middle English word dating back to 1300鈥50
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The 16th-century novelist Miguel de Cervantes framed his fictional story of the knight-errant Don Quixote as the translation of a recovered Arabic manuscript.

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Nonetheless, he is regarded by some in the astronomy community as a knight-errant, tilting at windmills.

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One man came as a patriotic duck; another as a bald eagle; another as a cross between a knight-errant and Captain America; another as Abraham Lincoln.

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In Cervantes鈥檚 classic novel, a student tells the knight-errant Don Quixote, 鈥淭he greater the fame of the writer, the more closely his books are scrutinized.鈥

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The Aug. 16 Style article 鈥淎 knight-errant looking to right the ways of the wind鈥 illuminated the president鈥檚 views 鈥 at best, those of a Luddite 鈥 on the status of wind generation worldwide.

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