英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/, (古風な用法) /ˈt͡ʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/

形容詞

chivalrous (comparative more chivalrous, superlative most chivalrous)

1. (of a man) Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 213819910:

     Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes, not written, or formally taught, but intuitively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true.

   • 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.

2. involving chivalry.

反意語

• unchivalrous

派生語

• chivalrously