quixotry
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quixotry (countable and uncountable, plural quixotries)
- A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 158:
- She knew that her brother was capable of any quixotry, any excess.
- 1930, W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 20:
- His quixotry might exasperate, but could not affront, them.
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- Don Quixote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia