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chevilles

chevilles is the plural of cheville.

Meaning of cheville

Noun

cheville (plural chevilles)

  1. A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.
    • The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing

Questions about chevilles

What is chevilles the plural of?
Chevilles is the plural of cheville.

Words near chevilles in the dictionary

  1. Chevezes
  2. Chevie
  3. chevied
  4. chevies
  5. cheville
  6. chevilles
  7. chevin
  8. Chevington
  9. chevins
  10. cheviot
  11. Cheviot Hills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chevilles (page history and authors); cheville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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