Siege Perilous
Arthurian Legend. a vacant seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the predestined finder of the Holy Grail and was fatal to pretenders.
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How to use Siege Perilous in a sentence
And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was void.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryThen she had marvel what knight it might be that durst adventure him to sit in the Siege Perilous.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryOne seat only long remained unoccupied, and that was the Siege Perilous.
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion | Beatrice ClayThe golden throne had become a "Siege Perilous," and she abdicated in favor of the grasshopper and his black and horrent visitor.
Queen Hildegarde | Laura Elizabeth Howe RichardsLet us have stranger castles than that of Usher, more dazzling chairs than the Siege Perilous.
The Art Of The Moving Picture | Vachel Lindsay
British Dictionary definitions for Siege Perilous
(in Arthurian legend) the seat at the Round Table that could be filled only by the knight destined to find the Holy Grail and that was fatal to anyone else
Origin of Siege Perilous
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