Knight-errant

The Knight Errant by John Everett Millais (1870)

A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how a knight would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues.

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