Rosinante

Rosinante [roz-uh-nan-tee, roh-zuh-nahn-tee] Examples noun

1. the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
2. (lowercase) an old, decrepit horse.

Spanish Rocinante. Examples from the Web for rosinante Historical Examples of rosinante

Now we shall look after the requirements of Rosinante, my little Sancho Panza.

Mixed Faces

Roy Norton

Securing all his money about his person, he mounted his Rosinante.

The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty

T. J. Llewelyn Prichard

Don’t you think your Rosinante would be benefitted by a taste of the spur?

Alone

Marion Harland

Once more mounted on my Rosinante, we resumed our line of march.

The Captive in Patagonia

Benjamin Franklin Bourne

I roamed about in the gloom searching for my errant Rosinante.

With Steyn and De Wet

Philip Pienaar

British Dictionary definitions for rosinante Rosinante noun

1. a worn-out emaciated old horse

Word Origin for Rosinante C18: from Spanish, the name of Don Quixote’s horse, from rocin old horse Word Origin and History for rosinante 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.