chivachye

Middle English

Noun

chivachye

1. 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)