bas chevaliern.
/ˈba ʃəvalˌjeɪ/Categories »
‘Low or Inferiour Knights, by bare Tenure of a Military Fee, as distinguished from Bannerets and Baronets.’ Phillips 1706; whence in modern dictionaries Founded on an erroneous derivation of bachelor n.
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