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Chevalier


Definition:

  • (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
  • (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (4) One evening, Kusturica went to Lisbon to play a concert; another day, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
  • (5) Tracy Chevalier on York Art Gallery I was writer in residence at the gallery in 2008 and so knew it in its old incarnation as well as its new, following the superb renovation last year.
  • (6) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
  • (7) In 2003, he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
  • (8) Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (2001) Chevalier’s 2001 novel introduces the work of the suffragettes as part of a wider exploration of the changing role of women at the turn of the 20th century.
  • (9) No, the remarkable thing is Hotel Chevalier, Anderson's 10-minute short that appears before the main feature.
  • (10) Awards: Best Canadian Production Award at the Quinzaine internationale de thétre de Québec '84, for Circulations; Creation Award from the Conseil de la culture de Québec '86; Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres '90; Order of Canada '94.
  • (11) Excellent atmosphere February 9, 2014 3.29pm GMT France’s Anaïs Chevalier is the last woman to complete the sprint biathlon, but she cannot disrupt the medalists.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest AFP filmed rebel snipers on the strategically and symbolically important castle at Crac des Chevalier west of Homs.
  • (13) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
  • (14) Suffren played a double-game with his immediate subordinate; not lacking verbal smoothness, he nevertheless abused him in such a way in his reports to the authorities, that when Chevalier de Tromelin, being ill, asked to return to France, he learned that he had been dismissed of the Navy without having ever been heard or able to attempt to defend himself.
  • (15) Today that year turned from turbulent to terminal as it was revealed that the 58-year-old chief executive had lied to the high court in his attempts to explain how he had met his former partner, Jeff Chevalier, exercising in Battersea Park near his Chelsea home.
  • (16) His father had died many years ago and Browne lived with his mother who accompanied him to functions in the place of a spouse until her death and later appearance of Chevalier.
  • (17) Like the massive crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers , which was held for over a year by rebel forces who could dominate a valley full of Christian villages west of Homs, the Aleppo citadel used to be one of Syria’s major tourist attractions.
  • (18) Over the weekend I organised a quick petition signed by more than 50 high-profile women, from Helena Kennedy, Shami Chakrabarti, Stella Creasy and Bianca Jagger to Jeanette Winterson, Tracy Chevalier and Sandi Toksvig, asking the BBC male hierarchy not to just automatically give the job to a male without even contemplating alternatives.
  • (19) Now that these police states have imploded, it’s as if Europe’s outer defences, its barbican, had, like Crac des Chevaliers itself, crumbled.
  • (20) For a long time now, the actor and experimental theatre director Robert Lepage has been fascinated by the life of the Chevalier d'Eon, an 18th-century French soldier who had a flamboyant career as a diplomat and secret agent for Louis XV, and spent much of his adult life dressed as a woman.

Valet


Definition:

  • (n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
  • (n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) McQueen told this tale several times – the words varied from “McQueen was here” to more profane messages, between tellings – and so, years later, Anderson & Sheppard asked the prince’s valet for the suits of that era back, in order to examine the linings.
  • (2) Do you hand over your keys to a valet parking service at the airport before flying off on holiday?
  • (3) Lee Suthern, McCoy's valet I shall be looking after his saddles and the weights that go in them, his colours, making sure his equipment's all nice and safe.
  • (4) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
  • (5) Accordingly, the ghost is advised never to forget that, at the end of the day, he or she ranks somewhere between a valet and a cleaner.
  • (6) At the same time, packed hampers and bottles of "royal" home made orange vodka, made from Seville oranges, courtesy of the king of Spain, would be despatched to a secluded log cabin by attentive valets and royal stewards, all sporting pristine thorn-proof apparel.
  • (7) The assertion that the estate is inseparable from Charles has allowed him to use its gross profits to fund private and official spending including 26 valets, gardeners and farm staff.
  • (8) The same year, in October, another member called police to report that a club parking valet had stolen her $800 gold chain and intended to press charges.
  • (9) The Liberal Democrats have no serious future as a party if they continue to act as the blame-takers and valets for David Cameron's Conservatives.
  • (10) While in Washington, he got to know many who had worked at the White House and elsewhere with their own fragment of history – valets, housekeepers, cooks, secretaries, secret service agents, groundskeepers, and others.
  • (11) He was a better military commander than he was an artist but Dwight D Eisenhower's oil painting of the south London house where he lived while planning the D-day landings is to be auctioned 65 years after he first painted it for his valet.
  • (12) The 187 articles of royal memorabilia to be auctioned by Christie's in Rome are the property of the couple's elderly Italian former valet and were apparently passed to him by his uncle and aunt who served as domestic staff for nearly 40 years.
  • (13) You could have 20 black actors in a film all playing valets, and you would merely underline an idea of white superiority.
  • (14) You could be left with a large bill: research by comparison site Gocompare.com found that half of all insurance policies do not cover damage to a vehicle while it is in the control of valet parking.
  • (15) He first heard of Spinlister when the site sponsored a bike valet at a Brooklyn Bridge Park concert and has since had two rentals, including a pair from Australia.
  • (16) Scott Kelly, Gocompare's head of car insurance, said: "Valet parking, once the preserve of Hollywood movies, is becoming a popular option in the UK with many airports, major hotels and entertainment venues now offering 'meet and greet' services.
  • (17) The latest cache of royal correspondence to emerge from a former servant is to be auctioned, without controversy, in Italy today when letters written by Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson 70 years ago are sold by the couple's valet.
  • (18) Clearly, delivering healthcare is more complex and safety critical than selling burgers or hotel rooms but it was fascinating to hear at this month's Nuffield Trust Summit how much emphasis the best US healthcare organisations put on managing their customer experience (valet parking at their hospitals was my favourite).
  • (19) They believed the modernising task was complete by 2008: a quick valet service and tune-up rather than fundamental change.
  • (20) I had to explain to my very nice valet that I'd been dressing myself for 40 years and I could manage.

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