chevalier : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chevalier	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for chevalier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Chevalier n French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972) [syn: Chevalier, Maurice Chevalier] a gallant or courtly gentleman Synonym(s): cavalier, chevalier
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chevalier \Che`valier"\, n. [F., fr. LL. caballarius. See {Cavaller}.] 1. A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. [bd]Mount, chevaliers; to arms.[b8] --Shak. 2. A member of certain orders of knighthood. {[d8]Chevalier* d'industrie}[F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. {The Chevalier St. George} (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called [bd]The Pretender.[b8] {The Young Chevalier}, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.