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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In 1922 John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express.
From Time Magazine Archive
Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed."
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
Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
The judge rides on in front of us on his "Rosinante," to encourage the mules.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
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