CHEVALIER, a French term, ordinarily signifying a KNIGHT. The word is formed of the French, cheval "horse," and the barbarous Latin cauallus.
It is used, in heraldry, to signify any cavalier or horseman armed at all points; by the Romans called cataphractus eques: now out of use, and only to be seen in coat-armour.
CHEVAUX de FRISE. See CHEVAL de FRISE.