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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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
Came the scene where he sees windmills through the mist, takes them for menacing giants, mounts Rosinante and charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed."
From Time Magazine Archive
He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Dos Passos, known for Three Soldiers and for Rosinante to the Road Again, will be still more variously known to those who read his book of verse, A Pushcart at the Curb.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
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