Quixote

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

/ kiˈhoʊ ti, ˈkwɪk sət; Spanish kiˈhɔ tɛ /

noun

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Example sentences from the Web for quixote

Filming began in 2000 with Jean Rochefort as Quixote and Johnny Depp as Grisoni.
Doomed Passion Projects of Hollywood: The Lost Classics of Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and More|Marlow Stern|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The great triumph of his life was having figured in the cavalcade of the Quixote as Sancho Panza.
Woman Triumphant|Vicente Blasco Ibaez
But her belief in her hallucinations is as firm as that of the Spanish Quixote for whom the book was named.
Woman's Work in English Fiction|Clara Helen Whitmore
We Amurricans take considerable stock (p. 332) in old man Quixote.
One-Act Plays|Various

His face had a sort of Quixote quaintness, so had his talk, while his humour had a pleasant flavour.
John Forster|Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
After this there was no more question, and Quixote set off, taking his brigand of a companion with him.
In Direst Peril|David Christie Murray

British Dictionary definitions for quixote

Quixote

/ (ˈkwɪksət, Spanish kiˈxote) /

noun

See Don Quixote

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