chivalry

Striving for chivalry on those early dinner dates, I’d pay for our meals and a dessert only she would eat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

He picks me up from Los Angeles International Airport — an act of chivalry that deserves knighthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

He is also giving up membership of the Order of the Garter - the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I know one great Spanish scholar who has never forgiven Cervantes for destroying the books of chivalries.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

High office brought to him a marked care for those little chivalries which are part of Parliamentary warfare.

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot

Where is my good? the little real hoard,   The secret tears, the sudden chivalries; The tragic love, the futile triumph—where?

From The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He was very good as far as he went; and if you expect the chivalries of grace out of Nature, you "may expect," as old Fuller saith.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various

Finally, the prose versions, more modern still, sharply distinguish the two chivalries, the one earthly, the other mystical.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various