chevalier d'industrie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French.

Noun

chevalier d'industrie (plural chevaliers d'industrie)

  1. (dated) Synonym of knight of industry (“footpad, thief or sharper”)

References
  • chevalier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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