Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A horse; hence, a support or frame.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A horse.
- n. In composition, a support or frame: as, a cheval-glass.
Etymologies
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Examples
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M. said, "_À cheval, Madame, je voyage à cheval_."
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He was no longer young, -- he had already been once married, -- I looked up at this moment, I do not know by what chance, and my eyes fell on a long glass, what they call a cheval-glass in France, my dear, showing the whole figure.
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Chivalry (derived through the French cheval from the Latin caballus) as an institution is to be considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious.
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Add to #9 which comes from the french word cheval meaning hourse, therefore horseman.
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But the recollection suddenly flashed to her memory that she had often heard of some kind of cheval-glasses, found in wealthy and well-to-do families, and, “May it not be,” (she wondered), “my own self reflected in this glass!”
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But the recollection suddenly flashed to her memory that she had often heard of some kind of cheval-glasses, found in wealthy and well-to-do families, and, "May it not be," (she wondered), "my own self reflected in this glass!"
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
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The word chivalry comes from "cheval," a horse, and so if a man was not mounted there was no chance to be chivalrous.
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Those armed and mailed warriors fought on horseback, and chivalry takes its name from the French cheval, meaning a horse.
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Her head of braids is tied back into a thick queue de cheval.
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He says, "Ludmila, pour votre anniversaire, je vais vous tailler un cheval."
hernesheir commented on the word cheval
"What charge is made for this delivery?", in the abbreviated jargon of railroad telegraphy. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 21, 2013