Talk:knightless

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Rfv-sense: without a knight. Sounds plausible… Ƿidsiþ 15:35, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

I see several instances on Google Books. —Stephen ^(Talk) 15:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

If it sounds plausible why on earth are you RFVing it? I agree that this is easily citable from gbooks for anyone who wants to make the effott. SpinningSpark 19:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Because ‘knightless’ already has a specific (different) meaning in chivalric poetry, and this definition is not in dictionaries. Ƿidsiþ 16:33, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

This nomination did, however, inspire me to make an entry for princessless, and then (for some reason) for wizardless, lizardless, and gizzardless. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:01, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Is knightless ever used outside of the context of chess?

How about the adverbs? knightlessly, gizzardlessly? "Gizzardlessly, the turkey awaited its carving." DCDuring TALK 20:26, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Does "When knightless steeds, through forest glades, shriek wildly as they go" answer your first question? Also [1][2][3][4][5][6]. SpinningSpark 21:04, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

As for the second question, I would imagine that uses of gizzardly are always in non-chess contexts. SpinningSpark 21:59, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. My search imagination is fading because of too much effort on taxonomic names, such as Meleagris gallopavo. DCDuring TALK 22:13, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Cited, I think. I found "knightless armor" (scary!), "knightless damsels", and "a knightless age". Equinox ◑ 17:10, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Verified. Ƿidsiþ 16:35, 24 November 2013 (UTC)