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- Chivalry - n. - A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
- Chivalry - n. - The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
- Chivalry - n. - The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
- Chivalry - n. - A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.
- Chivalry - n. - Exploit.
- Chivalrous - a. - Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
- Earl marshal - - An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.
- Socage - n. - A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.