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Knight bachelor   Listen
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Knight bachelor  n.  (pl. knights bachelors)  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Knight bachelor" Quotes from Famous Books



... spent afar from my side. Yet my voice, as I know well, should speed you on to glory and renown, not hold you back when fame is to be won. Yet what can I say, for all men know that your valor needs the curb and not the spur. It goes to my heart that you should ride forth now a mere knight bachelor, when there is no noble in the land who hath so good a claim to the square pennon, save only that you have not the money ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Knight bachelor" :   bachelor



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