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knight errant

/nahyt-er-uhnt/US // ˈnaɪtˈɛr ənt //

侠客行,骑士,骑士骑士,侠士

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural knights-er·rant.

    • : a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.

  • Scalise was a state representative old enough to remember the notoriety of Farrell and Knight from years before.

  • “Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” Knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.

  • The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.

  • That brave knight was my great, great grandfather, and he has often sat in this very chair in which I am sitting now.

  • The handsome person and gallant bearing of the youthful knight excited general sympathy and regret.

  • But to a Knight of Industry, as he knew the Count to be, a certain thousand pounds would be a great temptation.

  • According to Froissart, he was 'esteemed the bravest and most enterprising knight in the two kingdoms.'