quixotry

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Quixote +‎ -ry.

[edit] Noun

quixotry (countable and uncountable; plural quixotries)

  1. A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 158:
      She knew that her brother was capable of any quixotry, any excess.

[edit] Translations

visionary schemes

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