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childe

  [chahyld]
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–noun Archaic.
a youth of noble birth.
Origin:
sp. var. of child

Childe

  [chahyld]
–noun
Vere Gordon  [veer] , 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.
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childe   (chīld)   
n.   Archaic
A child of noble birth.

[Middle English childe, child, child; see child.]
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childe

an archaic term referring to a youth of noble birth or a youth in training to be a knight. In literature the word is often used as a title, as in the character Childe Roland of Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" and Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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