单词 | round table knight |
释义 | > as lemmasRound Table knight a. In sense 1b, as Round Table knight, Round Table legend, etc. ΚΠ 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature sig. Aiijv With howe great earnestnesse and delight the vnlearned sorte runne ouer the fruitlesse Historie of king Arthur and his round table Knights. 1647 J. Cleveland Char. Moderate Intelligencer 5 You are but under Tyrants, not so wittie As the Round-Table Knights, the Grand Committee. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor v. i. 55 More undaunted, than the twelve Peers of France; or greater Bullies, than King Arthur's Round-Table Men. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Wife of Bathe's Tale in Fables 492 Is this the Custom of King Arthur's Court? Are all Round-Table Knights of such a sort? 1798 Countess Purgstall Let. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. ix. 288 Don't..give him a name out of your list of round-table knights. 1827 Stories Chivalry & Romance 149 (title) The enchanted shield. A round-table adventure. 1846 Proc. Ann. Meeting Archaeol. Inst. 63 Those..whose critical acquaintance with the cycle of the Round table romances will enable them to state the source from which the names are borrowed. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 523/1 He [sc. Walter Map] was..one of the principal creators of the Round Table legends. 1915 D. G. Mason Art of Music IX. ix. 302 Emanating from the Round Table Legends, it [sc. ‘Tristan and Iseult’] spread into the literature of nearly all cultured peoples. 1975 A. Mygind et al. tr. J. Markale Women of Celts ii. iv. 95 A thirteenth-century French tale from the Round Table cycle, introduces a strange variation on the myth of the white pig. 2004 T. J. Parker Calif. Girl xix. 181 The hippie affectation made him look more like a deranged Round Table knight than a love child. < as lemmas |
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