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KNIGHT-ERRANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does knight-errant mean?
• KNIGHT-ERRANT (noun)
The noun KNIGHT-ERRANT has 1 sense:
1. a wandering knight travelling in search of adventure
Familiarity information: KNIGHT-ERRANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wandering knight travelling in search of adventure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("knight-errant" is a kind of...):
knight (originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit)
Context examples
As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What ho! my knight-errant of Twynham!” said a voice, “You are off to Ebro, I hear; and, by the holy fish of Tobias! you must take me under your banner.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Nigel had with him Sir William Felton, Sir Oliver Buttesthorn, stout old Sir Simon Burley, the Scotch knight-errant, the Earl of Angus, and Sir Richard Causton, all accounted among the bravest knights in the army, together with sixty veteran men-at-arms, and three hundred and twenty archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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