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‖ hidalgo|hɪˈdælgəʊ|
Also 7 huydalgo.
[Sp. hidalgo, OSp. and Pg. fidalgo, formerly also hijo dalgo (pl. hijos dalgo), i.e. hijo (filho) de algo, son of something, ‘the sonne of a man of some worth’ (Minsheu). See Diez; and cf. fidalgo.]
In Spain: One of the lower nobility; a gentleman by birth.
No one who was not a hidalgo was formerly entitled to the appellative Don.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 220 These haue large liberties and exemptions, as in Spaine those Gentlemen who are called Hidalgos. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 267 The Dons of Spaine, the Monsiers of France..the Hidalgos of Portugal.. and the younger Brethren in England, make a very poore company. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 116 Beaten off by fifty Huydalgoes. 1808Scott Let. to T. Scott 20 June in Lockhart, There may be some hidalgo amongst the mountains of Asturias with all the spirit of the Cid. 1819Byron Juan i. ix, A true Hidalgo, free from every stain Of Moor or Hebrew blood. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. vii. (1864) V. 314 An outburst of reprobation..from all the nobles and hidalgos of the kingdom.
b. transf. One like a hidalgo.
1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies 81 In order to..defeat those ingenious hidalgos the monkeys. 1867C. M. Yonge Six Cushions xi. 90 [He] was a ready-made hidalgo, as he well knew.
c. attrib.
1838Lytton Calderon vi, Those hidalgo titles of which your father is so proud. 1866R. Chambers Ess. Ser. ii. 82 The old hidalgo idea.
Hence hiˈdalgoish a., resembling or characteristic of a hidalgo. hiˈdalgoism (hidalgism), the practice or manners of a hidalgo.
1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xvi, A hat a little too hidalgoish, but quite new. 1887Westm. Rev. 1045 Petty princedom and effeminate hidalgoism. 1887A. Morel-Fatio in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 358/1 His [Cervantes'] main purpose was..to show by an example pushed to absurdity the danger of hidalgism, of all those deplorable prejudices of pure blood and noble race..which..were destined to bring Spain to ruin. |