child
“Rowland,”
KING LEAR, iii. 4. 178.
“This term [child], in O.E., denoted a youth, especially one of high birth, before he was
advanced to the honour of knighthood.”
Jamieson's Etym. Dict. of the
Scottish Language.
In romances and ballads it frequently is equivalent to “knight.”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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