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Astolat

[ as-tl-at, -aht ]

noun

  1. a place in the Arthurian romances, possibly in Surrey, England.


Astolat

/ ˈæstəʊˌlæt /

noun

  1. a town in Arthurian legend: location unknown
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It was not a lily maid of Astolat they saw, but a middle-aged woman whose hands, in stiff-looking gloves, grasped a pair of beads obediently.

The Astolat Castle Dollhouse is appraised at $8.5 million or $2,035 per square inch.

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It was built around 1980 by the miniaturist Elaine Diehl, who called it the Astolat castle; Arthurian legend and Tennyson’s poetry tell of an aristocratic young woman named Elaine, from the city of Astolat, who dies of heartbreak after Sir Lancelot rejects her.

His Elaine seemed to him a creature from another sphere—isolated, innocent, and wilful as the Maid of Astolat herself.

I proceeded to the hall door, and there found Denis, pale as the Lily Maid of Astolat, with three small fishes in his hand.

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