Chevisance Definition
noun
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, lxxxi.
Ah! be it not pardie declared in France,Or elsewhere told where court'sy is in prize,
That we forsook so fair a chevisance,For doubt or fear that might from fight arise.
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Noun
Singular:
chevisance
Plural:
chevisancesOrigin of Chevisance
From Old French chevisance, from chevir. The 'chivalrous adventure' sense is thought to be first used by Edmund Spenser, who incorrectly linked chevisance to Old French chevalerie (“chivalry”).
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