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What is a Quixote?

What is a Quixote? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist. [from 17th c.]
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As she went on to the creek and its pools where she could bathe, I took from my pack my Penguin edition of Don Quixote.
The onomastic instability of the novel Don Quixote undermines all certainty of a linear reading.
The second most expensive yearling on the day was an Indian Charlie colt out of the Dawn Quixote mare Caliente Lace.
Cervantes, in Don Quixote, parodies not just the chivalric romances of his day but also its literary structures through a new poetry of language.
In short, Kirmani tries to quantify the unquantifiable, and ends up looking like Don Quixote ferociously tilting at the scientific windmill.
Don Quixote grows calm and sorrowful, and with good reason, as he approaches his final defeat at the hands of Sanson Carrasco.

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