"black knight" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: black knights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} black knight (plural black knights)
  1. (fiction) A villain or evil character who masks their identity and that of their liege by not displaying heraldry. Categories (topical): Fiction, Stock characters Translations (evil character): nigra kavaliro (Esperanto), musta ritari (Finnish), chevalier noir [masculine] (French), შავი რაინდი (šavi raindi) (Georgian), schwarzer Ritter [masculine] (German), 黒騎士 (kuro kishi) (Japanese), 흑기사 (heukgisa) (Korean), чёрный рыцарь (čórnyj rycarʹ) (Russian), caballero negro [masculine] (Spanish), чорний лицар (čornyj lycar) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-black_knight-en-noun-SUUYwJRv Disambiguation of Stock characters: 94 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing Disambiguation of 'evil character': 100 0
  2. A dragonfly of species Camacinia othello
    Sense id: en-black_knight-en-noun-ozCau69-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: knight in shining armor, white knight,

Inflected forms

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