a. [a. F. chevalin, -ine equine, f. cheval horse.] Of or pertaining to horses, horse-; now chiefly in reference to the flesh of the horse as an article of food. Also subst. horse-flesh.
1550. J. Coke, Eng. & Fr. Heralds (1877), § 163. Moyles … asses, & al other beastis chevalynes.
1864. Times, 5 Oct., 9/2. Cold horse pie, and other chevaline delicacies.
1868. A. S. Bicknell, Hippophagy, 10. Horseflesh … or, as I propose henceforward to call it … Chevaline.
