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In Book 5 of the Aeneid, Entelus responds to the challenge of the boxer Dares by throwing his caestus (boxing glove, or gauntlet) into the boxing ring. To "throw down the gauntlet" is to issue a challenge. A gauntlet-wearing knight would challenge a fellow knight or enemy to a duel by throwing one of his gauntlets on the ground.
Gauntlet in Russia, 1845. To run the gauntlet means to take part in a form of corporal punishment in which the party judged guilty is forced to run between two rows of soldiers, who strike out and attack them with sticks or other weapons. Metaphorically, this expression is also used to convey a public trial that one must overcome.
Gantlet was the preferred spelling in early use of the phrase run the gauntlet—meaning to suffer punishment by gantlet or to endure an onslaught or ordeal—but gauntlet prevailed by the 18th century. Today, most writers use gauntlet, though gantlet, which is especially common in American English, is not incorrect.
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
2023 Cadillac Escalade-V’s power, comfort and tech throw down the gauntlet. Detroit Free Press. ... “Short” is a relative term, as it probably should be for all Cadillacs. The base model is ...
Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx; Gauntlet III: The Final Quest, a 1991 home computer game; Gauntlet IV, a 1994 video game for the Sega Genesis; Gauntlet Legends, a 1998 arcade game; Gauntlet Dark Legacy, a 2000 arcade game; Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, a 2005 video game; Gauntlet (2014 video game), developed by ...
The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War. This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's New Town Hall almost 200 years earlier (July 1419), and on that occasion led to the Hussite war. [3]
A feud letter (German: Fehdebrief or Absagebrief) was a document in which a feud was announced, usually with few words, in medieval Europe.The letter had to be issued three days in advance to be legally valid.