chevalier : Idioms & Phrases


Chevalier d'industrie

  • F., one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper.
Webster 1913

chevalier de bayard

  • noun French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)
    Pierre de Terrail; Bayard; Seigneur de Bayard; Pierre Terrail.
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chevalier de lamarck

  • noun French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
    Lamarck; Jean Baptiste de Lamarck.
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maurice chevalier

  • noun French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)
    Chevalier.
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The Chevalier St. George

  • (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender."
Webster 1913

The Young Chevalier

  • Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.
Webster 1913