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cheville

/ʃəˈviː/
/ʃəˈviːl/

Rhymes with -iː, -iːl

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Borrowed from French cheville. Doublet of clavicle.

noun chevilles

A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced. The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

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"cheville." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cheville. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cheville. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cheville

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"cheville." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cheville.

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@misc{cheville_2026,
  title = {cheville},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cheville},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}