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1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I5 She reades Greenes workes ouer and ouer, but is so carried away with the Myrrour of Knighthood, she is many times resolu'd to run out of her selfe, and become a Ladie Errant.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 364 Conscientious Catholicks conceived these Lady Errants so much to deviate from feminine..modesty..that they zealously decried their practice.

1738 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Nov. (1966) II. 130 I hear of a new lady-errant, who is set forth to seek adventures at Paris.

1848 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 555 Never, since the days of the Italian romances, did mortal lady-errant run such hazards by night or day—such perils by fire and water—such hair-breadth escapes.

1941 Hispania 24 273 What sort of person is this Yankee, who..represents Sancho Panza as set off against Alisande, the lady errant whom he accompanies?

2006 K. Britland Drama at Courts Queen Henrietta Maria x. 193 The queen consort travelled into Holland like a lady-errant to pawn her jewels and raise money for the war effort.