knight-errant
a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.
Origin of knight-errant
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How to use knight-errant in a sentence
For two days he had faced death, fighting like a legionary or a knight-errant, and in short playing the hero.
Overland | John William De ForestHe ought to have been born six or seven hundred years ago, he would have made a delightful knight-errant.
A Roving Commission | G. A. HentyAs I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!
The Tiger Hunter | Mayne ReidWhat can be more beautiful than a knight-errant's life, when he has good weapons, and more common sense than Don Quixote had?
Columba | Prosper MerimeeI had already become a redresser of grievances; there only wanted a lady in the way to be a knight-errant in form.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques Rousseau
British Dictionary definitions for knight errant
(esp in medieval romance) a knight who wanders in search of deeds of courage, chivalry, etc
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