knight
/ˈnaɪ̯t/ noun B1- A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. · King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Plural knights
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## The Bald Knight
A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt.
I did pretty well until I put the pie in, and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower with a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed.
A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
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