chevalier : Idioms & Phrases
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Chevalier d'industrie
F. , one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper.
Webster 1913
chevalier de bayard
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noun French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)
Pierre de Terrail; Bayard; Seigneur de Bayard; Pierre Terrail.
WordNet
chevalier de lamarck
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noun French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
Lamarck; Jean Baptiste de Lamarck.
WordNet
maurice chevalier
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noun French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)
Chevalier.
WordNet
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.
