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/ʃˌɛvəlˈɪr/ Listen

noun

Chevalier n.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms."

A member of certain orders of knighthood.

Chevalier d'industrie, one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper.

The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender."

The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.

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"Chevalier" Quotes from Famous Books

... which champagne was drunk to the health of the new chevalier of St. George, Shinshin told them the town news, of the illness of the old Georgian princess, of Metivier's disappearance from Moscow, and of how some German fellow had been brought to Rostopchin and accused of being a French "spyer" ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... men. There were riots; the rioters were imprisoned in the Heart of Midlothian—the Tolbooth—the crowd released them; some of the crowd were feebly sentenced to the pillory, the public pelted them—with white roses; and had the Chevalier de St. George not been a child of twelve, he would have had a fair chance of recovering his throne. The trouble was tided over; William III. died in 1702. Queen Anne came to the Crown. But the bankrupt company was not dead. Its charter was ...

— Historical Mysteries • Andrew Lang

... that the attention of his comrades was attracted, and they demanded the cause of his tears, whereupon he told them his story, and pointed out the same arms impressed on his cachet. This tale came to the ears of the Chevalier de la Fare, who then commanded at Nice, and after a hasty investigation he treated his subordinate with excessive courtesy, evidently believing him to be the man whom he represented himself ...

— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous

... brethren; and after having tried this for a year, he went to Versailles to report himself to the king. While he was there, it chanced that the envoy from Gevaudan arrived, and the king being satisfied with de Julien's conduct since he had entered his service, made him major-general, chevalier of the military order of St. Louis; and commander-in-chief in the Vivarais ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... bring. One, of a prophet, he sold for eight livres; and another, the 'Plague of the Philistines,' he sold for 60 crowns—a picture afterwards bought by Cardinal de Richelieu for a thousand. To add to his troubles, he was stricken by a cruel malady, during the helplessness occasioned by which the Chevalier del Posso assisted him with money. For this gentleman Poussin afterwards painted the 'Rest in the Desert,' a fine picture, which far more than repaid the advances made ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

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