chevaliern.

/ʃɛvəˈlɪə/

Forms: Middle English chevaller, Middle English, 1600s chivaler, Middle English chyvalour, chyvaler, cheveler(e, chevaler(e, Middle English–1500s chyvaller, 1500s chivallier, chevillere, chevailer, chevalour, ( chevelrier), 1600s ( shavileir), chivalier, chevaliere, 1500s– chevalier.

Etymology: Middle English, < Anglo-Norman chevaler, chivaler, Old French and modern French chevalier = Provençal cavallier, Spanish caballero, Portuguese cavalleiro, Italian cavaliere < Latin type caballārius horseman, < caballus horse. The modern representation of this would have been ˈchevaler, or ˈchivaler (compare chivalry); but since the 16th cent. the word has been refashioned after modern French, whence the pronunciation as given above; it is also often pronounced as French /ʃəvalje/.

a. A horseman; esp. a mounted soldier, a knight. (Now historical or archaic.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun]

styera1340

upstyerc1340

prickera1350

chevalier1377

sittera1382

ridera1400

horsemanc1400

horse-rider1580

cavalier1596

equestrian1791

bestrider1830

Macadamite1860

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier

horsemanc1275

chevalier1377

roiter1579

prancer1593

cavalier1596

trooper1640

cavalry soldier1852

plunger1854

cavalry man1860

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > knight

riderlOE

Flower of Chivalry1297

Knight (formerly also fellow, etc.) of the Round Tablec1330

chevalier1377

knight voyagerc1500

ritter1577

cavalier1596

knight-

1292 Britton i. xiii. §1 Gentz de religioun, clercs, et chivalers, et lour fiz eynznez.]

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 99 Ȝowre champioun chiualer, Chief knyȝt of ȝow alle.

c1440 Partonope 918 He hath with hym dyuers Chyvalours Of Norwey..and Denmark nacioun.

c1440 York Myst. xvi. 52 Knyghthes I comaunde..Þas churles as cheueleres ye chastise & chase.

1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 15 The seyd erle made ser John Fastolfe chevaler his lieutenaunt.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Chevalouris, cawandaris and flingaris.

1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 33 Among the troupe of chyuallers, one Pelops doth arise.

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. D They saw..The Cheualiers of Fraunce and crossebow shot Make lanes of slaughtred bodies through thine hoast.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 43 Knights for the Shire in the Parliament..and, if with the addition of Chivaler or Miles..Knights by dubbing, before of that their Relation.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. iii. 54 Sacred abbots and noble chevaliers—Normans all.

b. A member of certain orders of knighthood; and of modern French orders, as the Legion of Honour.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > member of order

knight brother1687

chevalier1728

legionary1802

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 317 During the short Reign of our promising King Edward VI, the Chevaliers [Knights of St. John] could do nothing here.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. vii. 41 The..order of the Golden Fleece..The chevaliers were emperors, kings, princes, [etc.].

c. the Chevalier or Chevalier de St. George: a name applied to James Stuart, son of James II, the ‘Old Pretender’. the Young Chevalier: Charles Edward Stuart, the ‘Young Pretender’.

ΚΠ

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1741) 194 Of late the chevalier has been mention'd with an air of importance in our news~papers, as if he were really some-body.

17.. Jacobite Song Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier.

1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iii. 25 A letter..addressed, I think, to the Chevalier de St. George.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. x. 116 About the beginning of November the young Chevalier..resolved to peril his cause upon an attempt to penetrate into the centre of England.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 6 He spoke sometimes of the Chevalier, but never either of the Prince, which would have been sacrificing his own principles, or of the Pretender, which would have been offensive to those of others.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. ii Charles, the second Duke..served under the command of the Duke of Cumberland against the gallant, but injudicious, and ill-supported ‘young Chevalier’.

d. Applied to the cadets of the Old French noblesse, who embraced a military career.

ΚΠ

1840 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 135 His house immediately became the rallying place of all the young French chevaliers.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire (ed. 2) ii. 52 Chevalier appears to have been a title given by courtesy to the cadets of certain great families.

2. As an appellation of honour: A chivalrous man; a lady's cavalier; a gallant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > one who courts or woos

wooerc1000

company-keeper1554

suitor?1555

love-maker1581

squire1590

courter1611

chevalier1630

Protestant1648

suitorer1688

cavalier1752

courtier1766

society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [noun] > disinterested bravery or courtesy > man

chevalier1630

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male

gallant1388

wamfler15..

rutter1506

younkera1522

fine gentleman1575

cavalier1589

whisker1595

jinglespur1604

bravery1616

brisk1621

chevalier1630

man about town1647

man of mode1676

man of distinction1699

sprag1707

sparky1756

blood1763

swell1786

Corinthian1819

galliard1828

mondain1833

toff1851

flâneur1854

Johnny1883

silver-tail1898

knut1911

lounge lizard1918

old buster1919

Hooray Henry1959

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. iii. 1 Let who will come (my Noble Shauileir).

1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 9 O Chevalier! worthy to be call'd St. George.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. x. 257 A noble devout-hearted Chevalier.

3. chevalier of industry (French chevalier d' industrie also frequently used), chevalier of fortune: one who lives by his wits, an adventurer, swindler, sharper.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > a sharper, swindler

hawk1548

huckster1556

shifterc1562

coney-catcher1591

sharker1594

shark1600

bat-fowler1602

guller1602

gull-groper1602

poop-noddy1616

int1631

shirk1639

knight of industrya1658

hockettor1672

biter1680

sharper1681

duffer1735

sharp1797

diddler1803

chevalier of industry1807

flat-catcher1821

thimble-man1830

thimblerigger1831

thimblerig1839

riggerc1840

chevalier of fortune1867

flim-flammer1881

spiv1929

sharpie1942

shrewd1954

1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1527 Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of..fine-spoken chevaliers d'industrie..which swarm at Paris.

1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 315 Doubtful characters, particularly pimps, bailiffs, lottery-brokers, chevaliers of industry, and great men.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. Final chapter 287 A severe wound on the head, inflicted..by a well-known chevalier d'industrie.

1867 M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent v. ix A puppet in the hands of the chevalier of fortune.

1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 16 Jan. 62/2 I have no objection whatever to Satan, after elaborately disguising himself as a modern chevalier d'industrie, giving himself away by occasional flashes of lightning.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 183 That Imperial chevalier d'industrie, Napoleon III.

4. transferred.

Categories »

a. Heraldry. A horseman armed cap-à-pie.

b. The knight in chess.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > knight

knightc1440

chevalier1796

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxx. 383 The hippocampus, or sea-horse, which I could compare to nothing better than the chevalier of a chess-board.

c. A bird: the Greenshank or Whistling Snipe ( Totanus glottis).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa nebularia (greenshank)

greater plover1678

greenshank1766

chevalier1885

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 121 These birds are the Chevaliers aux pieds verds of the French.]

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 118 The specimens included..curlews, chevaliers, rails, water-hens.

Compounds

C1. Simple attributive.

ΚΠ

1824 J. Galt Rothelan III. 281 The perfidy of Rupert..sank deep into the high chevalier bosom of the Palatine.

C2.

chevalier-crab n. see quot.

ΚΠ

1868 J. Timbs Eccentr. Animal Creation 294 The Chevalier crabs (so called from the celerity with which they traverse the ground). These are found in Africa, and along the borders of the Mediterranean.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	chevalier
释义	chevaliern. /ʃɛvəˈlɪə/ Forms: Middle English chevaller, Middle English, 1600s chivaler, Middle English chyvalour, chyvaler, cheveler(e, chevaler(e, Middle English–1500s chyvaller, 1500s chivallier, chevillere, chevailer, chevalour, ( chevelrier), 1600s ( shavileir), chivalier, chevaliere, 1500s– chevalier. Etymology: Middle English, < Anglo-Norman chevaler, chivaler, Old French and modern French chevalier = Provençal cavallier, Spanish caballero, Portuguese cavalleiro, Italian cavaliere < Latin type caballārius horseman, < caballus horse. The modern representation of this would have been ˈchevaler, or ˈchivaler (compare chivalry); but since the 16th cent. the word has been refashioned after modern French, whence the pronunciation as given above; it is also often pronounced as French /ʃəvalje/. 1. a. A horseman; esp. a mounted soldier, a knight. (Now historical or archaic.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] styera1340 upstyerc1340 prickera1350 chevalier1377 sittera1382 ridera1400 horsemanc1400 horse-rider1580 cavalier1596 equestrian1791 bestrider1830 Macadamite1860 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier horsemanc1275 chevalier1377 roiter1579 prancer1593 cavalier1596 trooper1640 cavalry soldier1852 plunger1854 cavalry man1860 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > knight riderlOE Flower of Chivalry1297 Knight (formerly also fellow, etc.) of the Round Tablec1330 chevalier1377 knight voyagerc1500 ritter1577 cavalier1596 knight- 1292 Britton i. xiii. §1 Gentz de religioun, clercs, et chivalers, et lour fiz eynznez.] 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 99 Ȝowre champioun chiualer, Chief knyȝt of ȝow alle. c1440 Partonope 918 He hath with hym dyuers Chyvalours Of Norwey..and Denmark nacioun. c1440 York Myst. xvi. 52 Knyghthes I comaunde..Þas churles as cheueleres ye chastise & chase. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 15 The seyd erle made ser John Fastolfe chevaler his lieutenaunt. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Chevalouris, cawandaris and flingaris. 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 33 Among the troupe of chyuallers, one Pelops doth arise. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. D They saw..The Cheualiers of Fraunce and crossebow shot Make lanes of slaughtred bodies through thine hoast. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 43 Knights for the Shire in the Parliament..and, if with the addition of Chivaler or Miles..Knights by dubbing, before of that their Relation. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. iii. 54 Sacred abbots and noble chevaliers—Normans all. b. A member of certain orders of knighthood; and of modern French orders, as the Legion of Honour. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > member of order knight brother1687 chevalier1728 legionary1802 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 317 During the short Reign of our promising King Edward VI, the Chevaliers [Knights of St. John] could do nothing here. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. vii. 41 The..order of the Golden Fleece..The chevaliers were emperors, kings, princes, [etc.]. c. the Chevalier or Chevalier de St. George: a name applied to James Stuart, son of James II, the ‘Old Pretender’. the Young Chevalier: Charles Edward Stuart, the ‘Young Pretender’. ΚΠ 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1741) 194 Of late the chevalier has been mention'd with an air of importance in our news~papers, as if he were really some-body. 17.. Jacobite Song Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier. 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iii. 25 A letter..addressed, I think, to the Chevalier de St. George. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. x. 116 About the beginning of November the young Chevalier..resolved to peril his cause upon an attempt to penetrate into the centre of England. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 6 He spoke sometimes of the Chevalier, but never either of the Prince, which would have been sacrificing his own principles, or of the Pretender, which would have been offensive to those of others. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. ii Charles, the second Duke..served under the command of the Duke of Cumberland against the gallant, but injudicious, and ill-supported ‘young Chevalier’. d. Applied to the cadets of the Old French noblesse, who embraced a military career. ΚΠ 1840 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 135 His house immediately became the rallying place of all the young French chevaliers. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire (ed. 2) ii. 52 Chevalier appears to have been a title given by courtesy to the cadets of certain great families. 2. As an appellation of honour: A chivalrous man; a lady's cavalier; a gallant. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > one who courts or woos wooerc1000 company-keeper1554 suitor?1555 love-maker1581 squire1590 courter1611 chevalier1630 Protestant1648 suitorer1688 cavalier1752 courtier1766 society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [noun] > disinterested bravery or courtesy > man chevalier1630 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iv. iii. 1 Let who will come (my Noble Shauileir). 1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 9 O Chevalier! worthy to be call'd St. George. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. x. 257 A noble devout-hearted Chevalier. 3. chevalier of industry (French chevalier d' industrie also frequently used), chevalier of fortune: one who lives by his wits, an adventurer, swindler, sharper. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > a sharper, swindler hawk1548 huckster1556 shifterc1562 coney-catcher1591 sharker1594 shark1600 bat-fowler1602 guller1602 gull-groper1602 poop-noddy1616 int1631 shirk1639 knight of industrya1658 hockettor1672 biter1680 sharper1681 duffer1735 sharp1797 diddler1803 chevalier of industry1807 flat-catcher1821 thimble-man1830 thimblerigger1831 thimblerig1839 riggerc1840 chevalier of fortune1867 flim-flammer1881 spiv1929 sharpie1942 shrewd1954 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1527 Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of..fine-spoken chevaliers d'industrie..which swarm at Paris. 1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 315 Doubtful characters, particularly pimps, bailiffs, lottery-brokers, chevaliers of industry, and great men. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. Final chapter 287 A severe wound on the head, inflicted..by a well-known chevalier d'industrie. 1867 M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent v. ix A puppet in the hands of the chevalier of fortune. 1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 16 Jan. 62/2 I have no objection whatever to Satan, after elaborately disguising himself as a modern chevalier d'industrie, giving himself away by occasional flashes of lightning. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 183 That Imperial chevalier d'industrie, Napoleon III. 4. transferred. Categories » a. Heraldry. A horseman armed cap-à-pie. b. The knight in chess. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > knight knightc1440 chevalier1796 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxx. 383 The hippocampus, or sea-horse, which I could compare to nothing better than the chevalier of a chess-board. c. A bird: the Greenshank or Whistling Snipe ( Totanus glottis). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa nebularia (greenshank) greater plover1678 greenshank1766 chevalier1885 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 121 These birds are the Chevaliers aux pieds verds of the French.] 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 118 The specimens included..curlews, chevaliers, rails, water-hens. Compounds C1. Simple attributive. ΚΠ 1824 J. Galt Rothelan III. 281 The perfidy of Rupert..sank deep into the high chevalier bosom of the Palatine. C2. chevalier-crab n. see quot. ΚΠ 1868 J. Timbs Eccentr. 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