Devoir

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Devoir \De*voir"\, n. [F., fr. L. debere to owe. See {Due}.]
     Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; --
     now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the
     ladies. "Do now your devoid, young knights!" --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  devoir
       n : formal expression of respect

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEVOIR. Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Ric. II., c. 3, in the sense of 
  duties or customs.