Quixote

quixote English Etymology After en Don Quixote. Pronunciation en /ˈkwɪk.sət/ /ˈkwɪk.səʊt/ /kɪˈhəʊ.ti/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Quixote1.wav US /ˈkwɪksoʊt/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Quixote2.wav US /kɪˈhoʊti/ en əʊti 2 Noun One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist. from 17th c. en 1723 Charles Walker Sally Salisbury I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...]. en 1929 w:Cecil Day Lewis Transitional Poem Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art. en 2011 Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East 268 But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings. Related terms en Quixote yucca quixotish quixotism quixotry quixotic Quixotic quixotical quixotically unquixotic unquixotically Further reading en eponyms en People Stock characters