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
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
He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev.
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
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 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
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