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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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pl.

Knight-errants

, or

Knights-errant

A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.

Noun.

[knight and L. errans, erro, to wander.]

A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess and generosity.

See also: knight errant

knight-errant ‎(plural knights-errant)

A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.
- 1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don Quixote, volume 1, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes:
  In short, his wits being quite gone, [Don Quixote] hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.
A person who displays an adventurous or a quixotic spirit.

knight

Chinese:
Mandarin: 俠客 (zh), 侠客 (zh) ‎(xiákè), 劍俠, 剑侠 ‎(jiànxiá), 俠士 (zh), 侠士 (zh) ‎(xiáshì), 豪俠 (zh), 豪侠 (zh) ‎(háoxiá), 武俠 (zh), 武侠 (zh) ‎(wǔxiá), 游俠 (zh), 游侠 (zh) ‎(yóuxiá)
Finnish: vaeltava ritari
French:
Middle French: chevalier errant m