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For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
However, their tragic love story has formed the basis of our current cultural conception of chivalric love.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
In November 2014, Francis removed Cardinal Burke from his position as the head of the Vatican’s highest court and instead named him to a largely ceremonial post for the medieval Roman Catholic chivalric religious order, the Knights of Malta.
—Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
However, their tragic love story has formed the basis of our current cultural conception of chivalric love.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
In November 2014, Francis removed Cardinal Burke from his position as the head of the Vatican’s highest court and instead named him to a largely ceremonial post for the medieval Roman Catholic chivalric religious order, the Knights of Malta.
—Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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“Chivalric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chivalric. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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chivalric
adjective
chi·val·ric
shə-ˈval-rik 
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