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chivache

chivache is the archaic form of chevauchee.

Meaning of chevauchee

Noun

chevauchee (plural chevauchees)

  1. (historical) A military raid by cavalry through enemy territory, designed to disrupt rural communities and weaken an opponent.
    • Montrose led his army in an extended chevauchee through the heart of the Campbell country.2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, page 60

Questions about chivache

What is chivache the archaic form of?
Chivache is the archaic form of chevauchee.

Words near chivache in the dictionary

  1. Chiuso
  2. Chiusos
  3. Chiuza
  4. chiv
  5. chiva
  6. chivache
  7. chivachie
  8. chivachies
  9. chivalresque
  10. chivalric
  11. chivalries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chivache (page history and authors); chevauchee (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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