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/ˈɡɑwən/
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NOUN
- (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table
How To Use Gawain In A Sentence
- Gawain responded that even if he taught her all he knew, and recited romances to her, she was already a hundred times more versed in love than he.
- Lancelot called out a name; Sir Gawain, carrying the legendary sword that Arthur had pulled from the stone, walked to the squire who was called and tapped him on each shoulder with the sword, dubbing him a knight.
- Gawain called the meal a feast, but his hosts brushed off the compliment, saying the next meal would be better.
- Half of it is Orpheus+Selkies+Thomas the Rhymer+Gawain and the loathly lady. NaNoWriMo 2009
- When Sir Gawaine and Ettard awoke of their sleep, and found the naked sword overthwart their throats, then she knew well it was Sir Pelleas 'sword. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
- Jenovefa and Rhys introduced Lady Gladys to their new son, Gawain, and she eagerly embraced him. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
- They begged Gawain to enter, then helped him to dismount and ran to stable his horse.
- Nay, said Gawaine, ye shall not but if I be beat; it shall not forethink me then if ye go after me. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- Arthur's eyes fixed onto the paper, finding an understanding there while Gawaine's words would not penetrate.
- For as the French book saith, Sir Launcelot weened, when he felt Sir Gawaine double his strength, that he had been a fiend and none earthly man; wherefore Sir Launcelot traced and traversed, and covered himself with his shield, and kept his might and his braide during three hours; and that while Sir Gawaine gave him many sad brunts, and many sad strokes, that all the knights that beheld Sir Launcelot marvelled how that he might endure him; but full little understood they that travail that Sir Launcelot had for to endure him. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2