A romantic novel or a work of chivalric fiction; also, a style of sword knot or sleeve cuff fashionable in the 17th century.
Named after 'Amadis of Gaul,' a famous medieval chivalric romance first printed in Spanish in 1508. The novel became so wildly popular that its name attached itself to anything overly romantic or fashionable.
Amadis was basically the 'Game of Thrones' of Renaissance Europe—so obsessively popular that people named their hairstyles, clothing, and even poetry after it, and some historians think it actually influenced how real knights tried to behave.
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