单词 | flower of chivalry |
释义 | > as lemmasFlower of Chivalry 7. Flower of Chivalry: in various senses: (a) flower or fairest type of knighthood, or of feudal chivalry; (b) the prize or highest honour of knightly prowess; (c) the choice portion of a force of armed knights. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > knight riderlOE Flower of Chivalry1297 Knight (formerly also fellow, etc.) of the Round Tablec1330 chevalier1377 knight voyagerc1500 ritter1577 cavalier1596 knight- society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > knightly system in feudal period > fairest type of Flower of Chivalry1297 1297 [see sense 3a]. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 124 And in his oost of Chiualrye the flour. c1440 Partonope 1227 The rereward..wherin the floure Is herbowred of his Cheualrye. c1440 Partonope 1902 This hethen kyng..Which of chevalry beryth the flour Of alle the sette in hethen lay. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2183 The flour of knychthed and of chevalry. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxiiii. f. cliv The Kynge..with the Flowre of that Chyualry of Fraunce set forthward. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1231/1 Which duke [sc. the Black Prince], being the flower of chiualrie in his time. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. Hv Flowre of chevalrie. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 5 His Host, the Flow'r of Grecian Chivalry. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc xii. 517 Our English swords..Cut down the flower of all their chivalry. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. viii. 31 He of the sable mail, the hero of Cressy, Flower of chivalry. 1833 H. W. Longfellow Coplas de Manrique xxxix When all the flower of chivalry Was in his train. flower of chivalry flower of chivalry, etc., may belong to this sense or to 9, according as the accompanying noun is taken as abstract or concrete.extracted from flowern.< as lemmas |
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