Rosinante

[,rɔzi'nænti]

n. 驽马；唐吉诃德所乘之老瘦马

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Rosinante (n.)

Don Quixote's horse, from Spanish Rocinante, from rocin "worn-out horse" + antes "before," "so called in allusion to the circumstance that Don Quixote's charger was formerly a wretched hack" [Klein]. Rocin is cognate with Old French rancin "draft horse, hack," but the word is of unknown origin.

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