Astolat
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It is a style that also allows individual episodes to shine: best of all when Mariah Gale's touching Elaine of Astolat pines and dies, out of unrequited love for Launcelot, before ascending into the heavens.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not a lily maid of Astolat they saw, but a middle-aged woman whose hands, in stiff-looking gloves, grasped a pair of beads obediently.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
I proceeded to the hall door, and there found Denis, pale as the Lily Maid of Astolat, with three small fishes in his hand.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
Now when Sir Lancelot had departed, the Maid of Astolat could neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep for sorrow; and having thus endured ten days, she felt within herself that she must die.
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
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