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Rozinante

(4 syl.) A wretched jade of a riding-horse. Don Quixote's horse was so called. (Spanish, rocin-ante, a hack before.)

“It is the only time he will sit behind the wretched Rosinante, and it would be Quixotic of him to expect speed.” —London Review.

(See Horse.)

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