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Quixote

Noun

Meaning

Quixote (plural Quixotes)

Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist. [from 17th c.]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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A Duke and Duchess, and others, deceive Don Quixote for entertainment, setting forth a string of imagined adventures resulting in a series of practical jokes. Source: Internet

After Alonso Quixano dies, the author emphasizes that there are no more adventures to relate, and that any further books about Don Quixote would be spurious. Source: Internet

After the books are dealt with, they seal up the room which contained the library, later telling Don Quixote that it was the action of a wizard (encantador). Source: Internet

After Whitefield condemned Moravians and their practices, his former London printer (a Moravian), called Whitefield “a Mahomet, a Caesar, an imposter, a Don Quixote, a devil, the beast, the man of sin, the Antichrist”. Source: Internet

As he has no shield, the Basque uses a pillow to protect himself, which saves him when Don Quixote strikes him. Source: Internet

At the time he was living in Valladolid, then briefly the capital (1601–1606), and finishing Don Quixote Part One, he was presumably working in the banking industry, or a related occupation where his accounting skills could be put to use. Source: Internet

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