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chivachie

chivachie 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

Forms of chivachie

pluralchivachies

Questions about chivachie

What is chivachie the archaic form of?
Chivachie is the archaic form of chevauchee.

Words near chivachie in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chivachie (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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