knights-errant
- plural of knight-errant.
Example Sentences
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Child usually compares Reacher to the knights-errant who wandered Europe in the Middle Ages, or the samurais of ancient Japan.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
"Your Highness" - The knights-errant - strong emphasize on the errant - behind this adventure comedy spend more time wallowing in medieval filth than weaving clever laughs and engaging action.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2011
The knights-errant - strong emphasis on the errant - behind the adventure comedy "Your Highness" spend more time wallowing in medieval filth than weaving clever laughs and engaging action.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2011
Rootless, quixotic, warped by an anti-childhood in Holocaust Europe, they traverse the American landscape like knights-errant on a futile search for purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Buck Sanford was one of the last of the knights-errant, the self-constituted champion of all women, old or young, good or bad.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
