What is "cheval"

Usage examples of "cheval".

Passeur-aux-Vaches, qui a disparu depuis sous le cheval de bronze et le Pont-Neuf.

Cheval Borgne that most of the denunciations had gone forth which led but to the one inevitable ending - death.

She had long since sold her cheval glass, and her hand mirror had not revealed the shabbiness of her muslin, or that by scraping her silvery clair hair into a severe knot she had made herself look younger than her twenty-three years, not older as she had hoped.

Cat stood motionless in front of the tall cheval mirror, her fingers clasped around a pearl necklace.

Turning then to his preparations, he was arrested by a glimpse of himself in the cheval glass which stood against the wall.

He looked up at the bed's canopy, at the mirror beneath it, then at the cheval mirror near the far wall, angled to reflect the firelight on whomever slept in that bed.

How Sir Launcelot came into the Joyous Isle, and there he named himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet .

Sir, said Sir Launcelot, my name is Le Chevaler Mal Fet, that is to say the knight that hath trespassed.

And or ever the knights depart, look thou make there a cry, in hearing of all the knights, that there is one knight in the Joyous Isle, that is the Castle of Bliant, and say his name is Le Chevaler Mal Fet, that will joust against knights that will come.

Also we have in this castle the fairest knight and the mightiest man that is I dare say living, and he called himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet.

And there Sir Percivale de Galis and Sir Ector de Maris began and told the whole adventures: that Sir Launcelot had been out of his mind the time of his absence, and how he called himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet, the knight that had trespassed.

Then, as the French book saith, Sir Launcelot was called many a day after le Chevaler du Chariot, and did many deeds, and great adventures he had.

And so leave we of this tale le Chevaler du Chariot, and turn we to this tale.

And so I leave here of this tale, and overskip great books of Sir Launcelot du Lake, what great adventures he did when he was called Le Chevaler du Chariot.

And because I have lost the very matter of Le Chevaler du Chariot, I depart from the tale of Sir Launcelot, and here I go unto the morte of King Arthur.