plural of kinbote

(obsolete) A fine paid to the kin of the victim of a crime.

Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).

(literature) A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.

plural of Kinbotean