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knight-errant
[ nahyt-er-uhnt ]
noun
- 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
- (esp in medieval romance) a knight who wanders in search of deeds of courage, chivalry, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knight-errant1
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Example Sentences
For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.
He ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.
As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!
What can be more beautiful than a knight-errant's life, when he has good weapons, and more common sense than Don Quixote had?
I had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a lady in the way to be a knight-errant in form.
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