Crossword clues for chevalier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chevalier \Che`va*lier"\, n. [F., fr. LL. caballarius. See Cavaller.]
A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. ``Mount, chevaliers; to arms.''
--Shak.-
A member of certain orders of knighthood.
Chevalier d'industrie[F.], 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. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., Anglo-French chivaler "mounted knight," Old French chevalier "knight, horseman, knight in chess" (12c., Modern French chevaler), from Late Latin caballarius "horseman" (source of Provençal cavallier, Spanish caballero, Portuguese cavalleiro, Italian cavaliere; see cavalier (n.)). The word formerly was nativized, but has been given a French pronunciation since 16c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A cavalier; a knight. 2 In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame
Wikipedia
Chevalier may refer to:
Chevalier is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Albert Chevalier (1861–1923), English comedian and actor
- Auguste Chevalier, (1873–1956) French botanist
- Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré (1607–1684), French writer
- Godfrey Chevalier, (1889–1922), American naval aviator
- Grahame Chevalier (born 1937), South African cricketer
- Haakon Chevalier (1901–1985), author
- Jay Chevalier (born 1936), American singer
- Jules Chevalier (1824–1907), French Roman Catholic priest
- Marcel Chevalier (1921–2008), French executioner
- Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), Belgian-French actor, singer, and popular entertainer
- Michael Chevalier (born 1933), German synchronis speaker and actor
- Michel Chevalier (1806–1879), French engineer and economist
- Mike Chevalier (1943–2006), American cinematographer
- Morgan Chevalier, fictional character
- Nicholas Chevalier (1828–1902), Australian artist
- Papa Joe Chevalier (1948-2011), American sports talk radio host
- Pierre Chevalier (caver) (1905–2001), French caver and mountaineer
- Sivaji Ganesan Chevalier (1927–2001), Indian actor and politician
- Tracy Chevalier (born 1962), historical novelist
- Ulysse Chevalier (1841–1923), French bibliographer and historian
Given name:
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799), Afro-French classical composer, one of the first known composers of African descent in the Western European classical tradition
Category:French-language surnames Category:Occupational surnames
Chevalier is 2015 Greek comedy film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and co-written by Tsangari and Efthymis Filippou. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "chevalier".
No one knew the Chevalier de Talvis, and the French ambassador was not even acquainted with his name.
American ancestor settled as the first permanent minister beyond the mountains, following the paths of the French priests in their missions and became a member of a presbytery extending from the mountains to the setting sun, until my last collateral ancestor living among the Indians helped survey the range lines of new States and finally marked the boundaries of the last farms in the passes of the Rockies, that ancestry has followed the frontier westward from where Celoron planted the emblems of French possession along the Ohio to where Chevalier la Verendrye looked upon the snowy and impassable peaks of the Rockies.
Three or four months afterwards the chevalier Nicolas Iron, then one of the inquisitors, astonished me greatly by telling me the whole story, giving the names of all the actors.
Guerchi introduced me under the name of the Chevalier de Seingalt, Zuccato looked astonished, for Mr.
Pierre Vendramin, an illustrious senator, obtained me the favour of a passage to Constantinople with the Chevalier Venier, who was proceeding to that city in the quality of bailo, but as he would arrive in Corfu a month after me, the Chevalier very kindly promised to take me as he called at Corfu.
The person was the Chevalier de Wurtemburg, who, without deigning to cast even one glance on me, began to say sweet words to Coraline, and thrusting his head entirely out of his carriage he whispered to her.
He praised the Chevalier twins, claiming their galerie had the best tapestries and antique rugs in all of Paris-which to him meant in all the world-and raved about Jacques Perrin, an aggressive dealer who was one of the first foreigners to exhibit at BLIrlington House-the London show that alternated years with the Biennale and admitted more foreign dealers than Grosvenor House.
At that moment her mother and the Chevalier Farsetti came in, and after some talk of no consequence she asked me to stay to dinner.
The minuets came to an end, and Dupre announced the quadrilles, and I was glad to see the Chevalier Ville-Follet dancing with the Corticelli.
The Chevalier de Ville-Follet came up to me and said that if I abandoned the Corticelli for such a trifle, he should feel obliged to give me satisfaction.
A few moments after, an old woman and a girl came in, and I was introduced as the Chevalier de Seingalt, of whom he had spoken so often.
Just then the grandmother, whose name was also Anspergher, came in with the two aunts, and a quarter of an hour later three men arrived, one of whom was the Chevalier Goudar, whom I had met at Paris.
The Chevalier de Breche came to the Lugano Fair to buy some horses, and stopped a fortnight.
Two or three days later, the Chevalier de Morosini, the nephew of the procurator, and sole heir of the illustrious house of Morosini, came to Naples accompanied by his tutor Stratico, the professor of mathematics at Padua, and the same that had given me a letter for his brother, the Pisan professor.
The Chevalier de Neuville came in towards the close of the meal, and Medini a few moments later.