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paladin|ˈpælədɪn|
Also 6 palladine, -yne, 7 paladine.
[a. F. paladin (16th c., Hatz.-Darm.), ad. It. paladino = Sp. paladin, palatino:—L. palātīn-us of or belonging to the palace, palatine; introduced after the equivalent OF. palaisin, -asin, -azin (see palasin) had become obsolete. Mod.F. has also, in another application, a third form of the same word, palatin: see palatine.]
In modern forms of the Charlemagne romances, One of the Twelve Peers or famous warriors of Charlemagne's court, of whom the Count Palatine was the foremost; hence sometimes transf. a Knight of the Round Table; also fig. a knightly hero, renowned champion, knight errant.
1592Daniel Delia xlvi, Let others sing of Knights and Palladines. 1598Barnfield Poems (Arb.) 85 Angellica the faire, (For whom the Palladine of Fraunce fell mad). c1600Distracted Emp. i. i, Of brave Orlando the great palladyne. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 165 They appeared upon the day armed from head to foot, like ancient paladines. 1658Phillips s.v. Palatinate, Certain knights of this Island, in ancient times called Knights of the round Table, were called Paladines. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lii. V. 411 The true Peers and Paladins of French chivalry. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xiii. 283 Resolved on treading in the footsteps of Charlemagne and his paladins. 1879B. Taylor Stud. Germ. Lit. 65 The ‘Chanson de Roland’ is no longer read, except by scholars, but the famous paladin still lives.
attrib.1866Kingsley Herew. xiv, The spirit of her old Paladin ancestor. |