| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "EZZELIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Ezzelin (3 syl.). Sir Ezzelin recognised count Lara at the table of Lord Otho, and charged him with being Conrad the corsair. A duel was arranged, and Ezzelin was never heard of more. A serf used to tell how one evening he saw a horseman cast a dead body into the river which divided the lands of Otho and Lara, and that there was a star of knighthood on the breast of the dead body. (Byron: Lara.) (See Conrad.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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