Flower of Chivalry

A name given to several cavaliers: e.g.

William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale, in the fourteenth century.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586).

Chevalier de Bayard (le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche) (1476–1524).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.