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Don Quixote
Spanish · 1605
"a fictional knight's name"
Cervantes's fictional knight, whose idealistic, impractical adventures gave the word its meaning
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quixotic
English · 1815
"extravagantly idealistic and impractical"
coined from the character's name for extravagantly idealistic, impractical behavior
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