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
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Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges.
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
In a Madrid bull ring one afternoon last week, the torero was as clumsy as Sancho Panza, and the bull as listless as Rosinante.
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
Sancho hastened to his assistance as fast as his ass could go, and when he came up found him unable to move, with such a shock had Rosinante fallen with him.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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