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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This Don Quixote upon his sagging, sopping Rosinante was Josef Pilsudski, Marshal and Dictator of Poland, astride the 25-year-old mare on which he charged at the head of his Polish Legionnaires in 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev.
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
If ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hypothesis confounds as a species the Rosinante of Quixote with the Dapple of Sancho Panza, and frames its argument on the mistake.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
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