Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to King Arthur, one of the last Celtic chiefs of Britain (the hero of a great literature of poetic fable, and whose actual existence has been questioned), or to the legends connected with him and his knights of the Round Table.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to King Arthur or his knights.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or
pertaining to thelegend ofArthur , king of theBritons , and his court atCamelot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
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Examples
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Caradoc, not even the germ, of what makes the Arthurian Legend interesting to us, even of what we call the Arthurian Legend.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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Yeah, Stefan. #14 is more noticeable in Arthurian legend, though.
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So to the Welsh must be given the honor of having sown a seed from which has grown the wide-spreading tree we call the Arthurian Legend.
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Diana’s second husband is Ted, a don at Oxford and expert in Arthurian Studies.
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So it is that an untitled Arthurian romance from the fourteenth century, in Middle English, has come to be known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A Successful Defiance Ricks, Christopher 2008
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Scholars have waged war over the theories of transmission of the so-called Arthurian material during the centuries which elapsed between the time of the fabled chieftain's activity in 500 A.D. and his appearance as a great literary personage in the twelfth century.
Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914
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The prose series of romances called Arthurian, owe their origin to: 1.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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It isn't recorded as 'Arthurian' till the 16th century, but it remained in the Britosphere well after the Arthurian tradition was established, so local folklore had something to hang its hat on, so to speak.
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
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The books vary in setting, with some possessing elements from different sub-genres such as Arthurian, Historical and Epic Fantasy.
Romance Fantasy Freedomstar 2007
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The books vary in setting, with some possessing elements from different sub-genres such as Arthurian, Historical and Epic Fantasy.
Archive 2007-07-01 Freedomstar 2007
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