† chevachee Obs.
Forms: 4 chivachee, -ie, 4–5 -ye, chyvachee, -ie, -ye, chiuache, cheuache, 5 chyvauche, 6 chevachey, (9 chevachie).
[a. OF. chevauchie, chevalchié (mod.F. chevauchée):—Romanic type cavalcata a riding, f. pa. pple. of cavalcare:—late L. caballicāre to ride, f. caball-us horse. Chevachee is in its origin a doublet of cavalcade: see -ade.]
An expedition on horseback; a raid, campaign.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1005 Þat chyuachee for to do. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 85 He hadde ben somtyme in chyvachie [v.r. chiuachye, chyuachie, chyuachye, cheualrie], In fflaundres, in Artoys, and Picardie. c 1386 ― Manciple's Prol. 50 Down his hors him cast..This was a faire chyuachee [v.r. chiuache, cheuache] of a coke. c 1450 Merlin 145 And thus was the chyuachie so privily kept. 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 150 In their cheuachey a venture did befall. [1843 James Forest Days (1847) 34 He..had distinguished himself in many of the expeditions, or chevauchées. 1875 J. Veitch Tweed 139 Four knights his peers Rode, famed in chevachee.] |