Quixote

plural Quixotes

1. One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist.First known use 17th c.

   Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art.

   1929, Cecil Day Lewis, Transitional Poem

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   I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...].

   1723, Charles Walker, Sally Salisbury

   But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268