Brewer's: Infant

Used as a synonym of “childe,” meaning a knight or squire.as, “Childe Harold.” King Arthur is so called. (See also Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. canto viii. 56.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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