chivalrous
Collocations
5ADJ.
ideal, own
VERB + CHIVALROUS
behave, honour
CHIVALROUS + NOUN
excellence, lucy, man, way
PREP.
in, than
ADV.
bally
Definitions
adj
Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
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.”
Involving chivalry.
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6Among 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.
Wiktionary“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.”
WiktionaryIt 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.
WiktionaryMr Tanaka is a chivalrous man.
Tatoeba · #279125To contend in a joust, be it verbal, one must also behave in a chivalrous way.
Tatoeba · #927320And thus no cavalier appeared to rival or to obscure the ideal picture of chivalrous excellence which Lucy had pictured to herself in the Master of Ravenswood.
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