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chevalier

In medieval Western Europe, a horseman, or a knight; also an honorary title used by the younger sons of a French noble family. The name is still in use in some foreign orders of merit, such as Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France.



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Each of these many chevaliers, if we may believe reports, was, like the Chevalier of Alencon, an old gentleman, tall, thin, withered, and moneyless.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
Jehan de Harlay, equerry guardian of the office of chevalier of the night watch of the city of Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
The vicomte and his wife joined the royalists at Coblentz, and the former, with his only son, Adrien de la Rocheaimard, or the Chevalier de la Rocheaimard, as he was usually termed, had joined the allies in their attempted invasion on the soil of France.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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