To complicate the answer to the simple question, look at it this way:
'term' is a noun, but it is a noun with a 'hole' in it -- we expect
something (a technical word) to 'fill the hole'. 'Chivalry' fills the
hole. In other words, 'term' and 'chivalry' are in a head/complement
relationship. 'Chivalry' is a sort of noun-phrase-internal complement to
the head 'term'. We don't _have_ to fill the hole (i.e. realization of
the complement is optional, not obligatory), but we can.
 
I don't know if there is a traditional-grammar equivalent of
'noun-phrase-internal complement'.
 
Johanna
 
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