chivachye

Middle English

Noun

chivachye

Alternative form of chyvachie
- 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 85-8:
  And he had been somtyme in chivachye, / In Flaundres, in Artoys, and Picardye, / And born him wel, as of so litel space, / In hope to stonden in his lady grace.
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