chivalry

On Feb. 24, 1525, the age of chivalry came to a symbolic end amid smoke and gunfire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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 can no longer sign off as the Duke of York, or put "KG", a Knight of the Garter, after his name, with a flourish of medieval chivalry.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

If he gathered flowers for her or helped her down from her horse, he did it with a casualness that transformed his chivalry into a simple act of friendship.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Is it possible that there are knights-errant now in the world, and that there are histories printed of real chivalries?

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

You say that two chivalries pitched into you, and you knocked them both over.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Taking the object of Don Quixote to be, what Cervantes declared it—"the causing of the false and silly books of chivalries to be abhorred by mankind"—no book was ever so successful.

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

Such chivalries, therefore, are now impossible; for myself I say, "Well, let them cease; thank God they once were, the Memory of that can never cease with us!"

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle

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