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knight Noun 1. a man who has been given a knighthood in recognition of his achievements 2. a. (in medieval Europe) a person who served his lord as a mounted and heavily armed soldier b. (in medieval Europe) a devoted male admirer of a noblewoman, esp. her champion in a jousting tournament 3. a chessman shaped like a horse's head, able to move either two squares horizontally and one square vertically or two squares vertically and one square horizontally Verb to make (a man) a knight [Old English cniht servant]
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| and a Knight dressed in crimson armour came galloping down upon her, brandishing a great club. Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him. In the original it ran, '"How it came about that ye good Knight Sir Agravaine ye Dolorous of ye Table Round did fare forth to succour a damsel in distress and after divers journeyings and perils by flood and by field did win her for his bride and right happily did they twain live ever afterwards," by Ambrose ye monk. |
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