knight-errantry

[nahyt-er-uhn-tree]

knight-er·rant·ry

[nahyt-er-uhn-tree]
noun, plural knight-er·rant·ries.
1.
the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
2.
quixotic conduct or action.

Origin:
1645–55; knight-errant + -ry
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Knight-errantry is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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