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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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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