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Knight-errant   /naɪt-ˈɛrənt/   Listen
Knight-errant

noun
1.
A wandering knight travelling in search of adventure.





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"Knight-errant" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been deposed from their old-time place of honour. These stories, however, were as yet so imperfectly known—and only to a few—that the most to be said is that some connection between their reviving popularity and the name of Smollett's knight-errant ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... well done indeed," the king said. "I would that I could ramble about and act the knight-errant as you do. 'Tis tiresome to be in the hands of councillors, who are ever impressing upon me that I must not do this or that, as if I were a child. I would gladly have you here about my person, but, as Sir Ralph has ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty


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