| 单词 | table knight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTable Knight Table Knight n. (also with lower-case initials) now rare a knight who sits at the table of a king, emperor, etc.; spec. a Knight of the Round Table. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > who sits at the Round Table Table Knight1675 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. 18 In his erecting of that strange Order of Table-Knights,..instituted..in contempt of Apollo. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 95 Some hold he was a table-knight of thine..the Red Knight, he. 1892 E. C. Brewer Char. Sketches Romance, Fiction, & Drama (2004) IV. at Twelve Paladins In each was a traitor: Ganelon (the paladin); Mordred (the Table Knight), like Judas Iscariot in the apostolic twelve. 1924 L. L. Knight Woodrow Wilson, Dreamer & Dream i. 26 To find the healing balsam and to hold companionship with the kingliest of all the Table Knights. < as lemmas |
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