5 July 2017
chevalier
[shev-uh-leer or especially for 1, 2, shuh-val-yey, -vahl-]
noun
1. a member of certain orders of honor or merit:
a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
2. French History. the lowest title of rank in the old nobility.
3. a chivalrous man; cavalier.
4. Archaic. a knight.
Origin of chevalier
late Middle English Middle French
1250-1300; < Middle French; replacing late Middle English chivaler < Anglo-French. See cavalier
Examples from the Web for chevalier
Contemporary Examples
Jacques Chirac made Boulud a chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in March 2006.
The Frenchman Who Rules New York
Katie Workman
September 21, 2009
chevalier was born in Washington, D.C., but has lived in London for the past 25 years.
Tracy Chevalier’s Novel on Ohio’s Underground Railroad
Jane Ciabattari
January 16, 2013
Historical Examples
You did not think your old aunt had so much spirit, did you, chevalier mine?
In Quest of Gold
Alfred St. Johnston
The last male heir joined the standard of the chevalier in 1745.
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 1
William Finden
Anagram
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Today’s quote
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
– Mitch Hedberg
On this day
5 July 1937 – The canned meat, Spam (spiced ham) released to market by Hormel Food Corporation.
5 July 1946 – the first bikini goes on sale after its debut at a fashion show in Paris. It was designed by Parisian engineer, Louis Réard. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the USA had been conducting testing of atomic bombs. Réard hoped that the bikini would have an ‘explosive commercial and cultural reaction’ just like an atomic bomb.
5 July 1989 – Former US Marine and white-house aide, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North given a three-year suspended sentence, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service after being convicted of ‘accepting an illegal gratuity’, ‘aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry’ and ordering the destruction of documents during his role in the Iran-Contra affair (a political scandal during the Reagan administration in which the US government was selling weapons via intermediaries to Iran, a nation that was blacklisted from receiving weapons. The profits were channeled through Nicaraguan terrorist groups, the Contras, which were violently opposing Nicaragua’s ruling left-wing Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction).
5 July 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.