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Word entry · 10 letters

chivalrous

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"Gallant"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted achilorsuvStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. being attentive to women like an ideal knight

Word origin

From Middle English chivalerous, from Old French chevalerous; see chivalry.

Used in a sentence

  • Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes, not written, or formally taught, but intuitively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true.
  • “I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.”
  • It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description simply because a woman wished it. Too bally chivalrous for our own good, we Woosters, and always have been.

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