chivalrous
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹʌs/
chivalrous
- (of a man) Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII and XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:
- 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.
- involving chivalry
- French: chevaleresque, galant
- German: ritterlich, ehrlich
- Italian: cavalleresco, galante
- Portuguese: cavalheiresco
- Russian: ры́царский
- Spanish: caballeroso
- French: galant, chevaleresque
- German: ritterlich
- Portuguese: cavalheiresco
- Russian: ры́царский
- Spanish: caballeroso, caballeresco
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