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Quixote

[ kee-hoh-tee, kwik-suht; Spanish kee-haw-te ]

noun



Quixote

/ ˈkwɪksət; kiˈxote /

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She reportedly also had a book collection worth more than €20 million, including a first edition of Don Quixote from 1605.

Filming began in 2000 with Jean Rochefort as Quixote and Johnny Depp as Grisoni.

They portrayed the Secretary as a kind of well-meaning but naïve Don Quixote flailing vainly against windmills.

First, Quixote-like, he kept tilting at the right-wing caricature of Obama that only right-wingers buy into.

He had gone on to such projects as a 28-foot marionette for the 1965 Balanchine production of Don Quixote.

At an orchestral rehearsal, held specially for him, he conducted his new Don Quixote Fantasia.

Don Quixote was always doing generous but rather foolish things, and the adjective quixotic now describes this sort of action.

Michael was now in a perplexity for literary recreation, until he remembered Don Quixote.

I tried it; but, in the spirit of Don Quixote with his helmet, I did not try it hard.

But he will not fight the windmills of Spain on an old mule like Don Quixote.

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