Р396
РЫЦАРЬ ПЕЧАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗА
lit,
usu. said with good-natured irony
NPmore often sing
fixed WO a person who is magnanimous and idealistic, but very naive and impractical
knight of the rueful (doleful) countenance.
From an appellation given to Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes's novel of that title, 1605.
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