romaunt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of romaunt
1520–30; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French romant romance 1
Example Sentences
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A severe critic might possibly have objected to a few anachronisms in this romaunt, but this in a fault that Prince Frederic shares in common with Shakspeare and Sir Walter Scott.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
"Sir Floris" is an allegorical romaunt founded on a passage in "Le Violier des Histoires Provenciaux."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Was it to have been a second romaunt of ‘King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid’?”
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
This was a romaunt in four cantos upon the already familiar episode of Francesca, that "lily in the mouth of Tartarus."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
There may, however, be some foundation for the following romaunt, and probably the incident, however slight, was too tempting to be sent forth to the world unadorned.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various
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