a. Also chev-. [cf. mod.F. chevaleresque, It. cavalleresco, Cat. caballeresc, Sp. caballeresco; f. chevalier, cavallero, etc.: see CHEVALIER, and -ESQUE.]
Wearing the garb, manners or spirit of chivalry.
1800. Month. Mag., IX. 6. These stories … received first in Armorica their chivaleresque garb.
1816. Keatinge, Trav., I. 313. The scientific and chevaleresque race of Andalusia and Granada. Ibid., II. 215. The terms of the verdict seem to us somewhat chevalresque.
1817. Godwin, Mandeville, II. 71 (D.). A strange mixture in it of the gallant and the chevaleresque.
1834. New Monthly Mag., XLII. 205. His manners were … courteous and chivalresque.
