Quixote
Noun
Meaning
Quixote (plural Quixotes)
Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist. [from 17th c.]
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Phrases with the word
Examples
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.
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.
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).
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”.
As he has no shield, the Basque uses a pillow to protect himself, which saves him when Don Quixote strikes him.
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.