| 单词 | the chevalier |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Chevalier c. the Chevalier or Chevalier de St. George: a name applied to James Stuart, son of James II, the ‘Old Pretender’. the Young Chevalier: Charles Edward Stuart, the ‘Young Pretender’. ΚΠ 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1741) 194 Of late the chevalier has been mention'd with an air of importance in our news~papers, as if he were really some-body. 17.. Jacobite Song Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier. 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iii. 25 A letter..addressed, I think, to the Chevalier de St. George. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. x. 116 About the beginning of November the young Chevalier..resolved to peril his cause upon an attempt to penetrate into the centre of England. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 6 He spoke sometimes of the Chevalier, but never either of the Prince, which would have been sacrificing his own principles, or of the Pretender, which would have been offensive to those of others. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. ii Charles, the second Duke..served under the command of the Duke of Cumberland against the gallant, but injudicious, and ill-supported ‘young Chevalier’. < as lemmas |
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