Infant.

Used as a synonym of “childe,” meaning a knight or squire as, “Childe Harold.” King Arthur is so called. (See also Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. canto viii. 56.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.