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chivalry
  1. (now rare, historical) Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle.
  2. (obsolete) The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
  3. The ethical code of the knight prevalent in Medieval Europe, having such primary virtues as mercy towards the poor and oppressed, humility, honour, sacrifice, fear of God, faithfulness, courage and utmost graciousness and courtesy to ladies.
  4. Courtesy, respect and honourable conduct between opponents in wartime.
  5. Courteous behaviour, especially that of men towards women.
  6. (Britain, law, historical) A tenure of lands by knightly service.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “They will consider different interpretations of the famous clash of August 22nd, 1485, within the broader context of medieval warfare and chivalry.”
      “Kennan was surprised to find so much chivalry towards women in such a condition of society.”
      “It is only a hundred years since Curran was thought a marvel of chivalry and boldness for daring to take a brief for a Roman Catholic clergyman.”
chevisance
  1. (obsolete) Help, remedy; a resource or solution.
  2. (obsolete) The raising of money; money raised or lent for some purpose.
  3. (obsolete) Chivalrous adventure.
  4. (obsolete) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
  5. (obsolete) An unlawful agreement or contract.
cavalier
  1. (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
  2. (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
  3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
    1. (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
  4. (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “From behind a bank, on the left hand, approaches a mounted cavalier attended by a peasant on foot.”
      “He has come from the wars to wed with a gay lady, and he has been hunting in these brave woods like a gallant cavalier of the king, dressed in green and gold.”
      “A young maiden was walking this road alone one evening about twilight, hurrying from a visit to a neighbor, when a dashing cavalier rode up and reined his horse beside her.”
calvary
  1. A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground.
  2. A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church.
  3. (by extension, figuratively) A strenuous experience.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It was these Arab horses that were used as a calvary horse by the Moslems and taken to North Africa and into Spain and France.”
      “The southern Caucasus could become a calvary but it could also remain a powder keg.”
      “German atrocities against Belgian civilians or the Austro-Hungarian mass slaughter of Serbs pale beside the Armenian calvary.”
cavalry
  1. (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
  2. (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
  3. (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Boats were built for the Roman foot soldiers while the Roman cavalry swam across with their horses.”
      “She said she wouldn't be sending in the cavalry to sort out the country's problems.”
      “The marketing team acted as the cavalry, launching a successful advertising campaign to support the new product.”
chevalier
  1. A cavalier; a knight.
  2. In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The poor chevalier de La Barre subsequently joined Calas in the ranks of the Enlightenment's martyrs.”
      “He was the official painter to the daughters of Louis XV, and then became painter to Jean Philippe, chevalier d' Orleans.”
      “In 1808 the imperial nobility was completed with the ranks of count, baron, and chevalier, all of them hereditary.”
chevauchee
  1. (historical) A military raid by cavalry through enemy territory, designed to disrupt rural communities and weaken an opponent.
cavalierism
  1. The practice or principles of cavaliers.
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, they should not confront gaps in knowledge with cavalierism, but with a humility that guides them towards working to gain the understanding enabling them to serve.”
cavaliero
cavalery
chevache
  1. Archaic form of chevauchee. [rare after 1880]
chivache
  1. Archaic form of chevauchee. [rare after 1900]
chevachie
  1. Archaic form of chevauchee. [rare after 1940]
chivachie
  1. Archaic form of chevauchee. [rare after 1900]
cavalrywoman
  1. A female soldier in the cavalry.
cavalryman
  1. A soldier in the cavalry.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In this novel, set immediately before World War I, a handsome young cavalryman is posted to a provincial Hungarian town.”
      “Every ten farmsteads were supposed to provide for a fully equipped soldier, including a horse if he was a cavalryman or dragoon.”
      “Such a man could only be a cavalryman, where the romantic ideal of the beau sabreur still had its place in the public imagination.”
cavalierness
  1. The state or condition of being cavalier.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr. Hartley was infinitely exasperated at the cavalierness with which he had been treated.”
      “He's responsible for so much of the cavalierness in my music.”
chevauchie
  1. Alternative form of chevauchee
chivalrousness
  1. The state of being chivalrous.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The knight's chivalrousness was evident in his unwavering loyalty, noble character, and fearless determination on the battlefield.”
      “Alexander was warm-hearted and generous, even to acquaintances and enemies, and his chivalrousness and diplomacy are legendary.”
      “Ancillary to the dangerous neighorhoods and my chivalrousness was the fact that she was large-chested and Swedish.”
chevisaunce
  1. Obsolete form of chevisance.
calvary
  1. Misspelling of cavalry.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was these Arab horses that were used as a calvary horse by the Moslems and taken to North Africa and into Spain and France.”
      “The southern Caucasus could become a calvary but it could also remain a powder keg.”
      “German atrocities against Belgian civilians or the Austro-Hungarian mass slaughter of Serbs pale beside the Armenian calvary.”
cavalero
  1. (obsolete) cavalier
  2. Examples:
    1. “Gardie Grissell's 10-year-old was runner-up to Cavalero in the Christie's Foxhunter Challenge Cup last season.”
      “National hope Cavalero is set to continue his preparation for the Aintree showpiece at Fontwell next Monday.”
cavalrywomen
  1. plural of cavalrywoman
cavalierisms
  1. plural of cavalierism
chevisaunces
  1. plural of chevisaunce
cavalrymen
  1. plural of cavalryman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In a commander's conference in 1957, he noted that some believed the airmen to be as wedded to the airplane as the cavalrymen was to the horse.”
      “For example, an infantryman with a rifled musket was a greater threat to artillerymen and cavalrymen.”
      “The West was really won not by blue-coated cavalrymen, but thanks to iron horses funded in the east by speculators.”
chevauchees
  1. plural of chevauchee
chevisances
  1. plural of chevisance
chevauchies
  1. plural of chevauchie
chevachies
  1. plural of chevachie
chevaliers
cavalieros
  1. plural of cavaliero
chivachies
  1. plural of chivachie
cavalieroes
  1. plural of cavaliero
cavaleros
  1. plural of cavalero
cavaliers
  1. plural of cavalier
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They romp about their Spanish colonial island in disguises, encounter Royalist cavaliers, and fall in love.”
      “Perhaps mental disintegration's forefather is the immoveable Warwick Armstrong, that roundhead in the age of cavaliers.”
      “It was Fairfax who created and trained the New Model Army that thrashed the cavaliers.”
chivalries
cavalries
  1. plural of cavalry
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The design of the sabre came from the cutting sword used by cavalries.”
      “Ashok maintained a large army more than nine lakhs, a few thousand cavalries and elephantries.”
calvaries
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