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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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.
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With the primary sweepstakes but three months away, McGovern appears more a Rosinante than a viable dark horse.
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Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed."
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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.
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Now we shall look after the requirements of Rosinante, my little Sancho Panza.
From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy
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