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Amadis

[ am-uh-dis ]

noun

  1. (in medieval literature) a knight-errant, model of the chivalric hero.


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"'Amadis de Gaule,' by the Seigneur des Essarts, commissary in ordinary to the king's artillery," she replied.

Libellos famosos spargit, in quibus Regin existimationem contumelios atterit sub nomine Amadis Orian.

It is, in general conception, pure Amadis of the later and slightly degraded type.

He quoted various chapters from books of chivalry, and cited Gandalin, squire to Amadis of Gaul.

As to the Amadis, and such kind of stuff, they had not the credit of arresting even my childhood.

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amadavatAmadis of Gaul