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chevachee


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PRONUNCIATION:

(shuh-vuh-CHEE/SHAY)

MEANING:

noun: An expedition, raid, or campaign.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French chevauchée (ride), from cheval (horse), from Latin caballus (horse). Earliest documented use: 1380.

USAGE:

“Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, brings a secret weapon with him today. It, or rather she, is his mother-in-law. ... This makes it a unique chevachee in the long history of Anglo-French ententes cordiales and not so cordiales.”
Blair Force One; The Times (London, UK); Feb 16, 2002.

“The word chevachee is the most apt way of describing the Mongol raiding tactics in 1211, for it is an act of plundering on a relentless and extensive scale.”
James Waterson; Defending Heaven; Pen & Sword Books; 2013.

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