antihero = 'anti-establishment hero'

[Jonathan Lighter]

?2009
http://science.jrank.org/pages/11602/War-Peace-in-Arts-Heroic-Soldier.html#ixzz0iIT0REwd
:
The Robin Hood of legend was the classic antihero—an aristocrat who donned
the garb of ordinary peasants and took up their cause of opposing taxation
and other feudal obligations while an absentee king fought in foreign wars.

JL
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