Rosinante
Americannoun
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the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
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(lowercase) an old, decrepit horse.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Rosinante
C18: from Spanish, the name of Don Quixote's horse, from rocin old horse
Example Sentences
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Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Don Quixote upon his sagging, sopping Rosinante was Josef Pilsudski, Marshal and Dictator of Poland, astride the 25-year-old mare on which he charged at the head of his Polish Legionnaires in 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the primary sweepstakes but three months away, McGovern appears more a Rosinante than a viable dark horse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed."
From Time Magazine Archive
The chivalric Don Quixote, having become a monomaniac on the subject of chivalry, bestrode his Rosinante, and, attended by his squire, started out to perform chivalrous deeds.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.
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