Astolat

[as-tl-at, -aht]

noun

1. a place in the Arthurian romances, possibly in Surrey, England.

Astolat

/ ˈæstəʊˌlæt /

noun

1. a town in Arthurian legend: location unknown

Example Sentences

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.

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The Astolat Castle Dollhouse is appraised at $8.5 million or $2,035 per square inch.

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It was built around 1980 by the miniaturist Elaine Diehl, who called it the Astolat castle; Arthurian legend and Tennyson’s poetry tell of an aristocratic young woman named Elaine, from the city of Astolat, who dies of heartbreak after Sir Lancelot rejects her.

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His Elaine seemed to him a creature from another sphere—isolated, innocent, and wilful as the Maid of Astolat herself.

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I proceeded to the hall door, and there found Denis, pale as the Lily Maid of Astolat, with three small fishes in his hand.

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