Cavalier

Word CAVALIER
Character 8
Hyphenation cav a lier
Pronunciations /ˌkævəˈlɪəɹ/

Definitions and meanings of "Cavalier"

What do we mean by cavalier?

A gallant or chivalrous man, especially one serving as escort to a woman of high social position; a gentleman. noun

A mounted soldier; a knight. noun

A supporter of Charles I of England in his struggles against Parliament. noun

Showing arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive. adjective

Carefree and nonchalant; jaunty. adjective

Of or relating to a group of 17th-century English poets associated with the court of Charles I. adjective

To act as a cavalier; ape the manners of a cavalier; carry one's self in a disdainful or high-handed fashion: sometimes followed by it: as, to try to cavalier it over one's associates.

A horseman, especially an armed horseman; a knight. noun

One who has the spirit or bearing of a knight; especially, a bold, reckless, and gay fellow. noun

capitalized The appellation given to the partizans of Charles I. of England in his contest with Parliament. noun

During some years they were designated as Cavaliers and Roundheads. They were subsequently called Tories and Whigs. noun

A man attending on or escorting a woman, or acting as her partner in dancing; a gallant; a beau. noun

In medieval fortification, a mound defended by walls and the like, raised so as to command the neighboring ramparts; hence, in modern fort., a raised work commonly situated within the bastion, but sometimes placed in the gorges, or on the middle of the curtain. noun

In the manège, one who understands horse-manship; a skilled or practised rider. noun

Knightly; brave; warlike.

Gay; sprightly; easy; offhand; frank; careless.

Haughty; disdainful; supercilious: as, a rude and cavalier answer.

capitalized Belonging or relating to the party of Charles I. of England.

A military man serving on horseback; a knight. noun

A military man serving on horse, early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.

A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.

A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:

Someone with an uncircumcised penis.

A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.

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The word "cavalier" in example sentences

The "I have no life so I sit on IRC 24 hours a day" award goes to: cavalier (cav, cavalier_) ❋ Unknown (1994)

Although it originally had connotations of being gallant, in the context of the revolution the term cavalier would come to be used by the opponents of the king as a derogatory term for anyone who acted in an aristocratic or haughty manner. ❋ STANLEY COREN (2002)

Zau al-Makan thanked him therefor, and the slogan arose and the sabre was drawn; but, as things stood thus, behold, there came forth a cavalier from the ranks of Roum; and, as he drew near, they saw that he was mounted on a slow paced she mule, fleeing with her master from the shock of swords. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the Gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Assuredly the Dean has a purse, and a tolerably well-filled one; and, assuredly, the Archbishop, on departing from an inn, not only settles his reckoning, but leaves something handsome for the servants, and does not say that he is forbidden by the gospel to pay for what he has eaten, or the trouble he has given, as a certain Spanish cavalier said he was forbidden by the statutes of chivalry. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

And its basketball team's approach to winning truly was cavalier, which is why LeBron James shouldn't be taking heat for going to the Heat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Drawing on his experience of European siegecraft, he proposed that they construct a “siege engine” called a cavalier. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Beneath the veneer of a cavalier was a student of warfare, a firm disciplinarian, a realist who schooled his officers and men in drills and tactics. ❋ Jeffry D. Wert (2008)

The cavalier was a light-built fellow, with good-humoured sun-burnt features, a shrewd and lively black eye, and a head covered with a crop of close curly black hair, and surmounted with a turf-coloured caubeen, in the pack - thread band of which was stuck a short pipe, which had evidently seen much service. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She was quick enough to notice that her clothing was not quite according to London fashions; but if she were not as gaily dressed as the ladies who stared at her, she had the comforting thought that her cavalier was the best-dressed and handsomest man that walked along Chepe that September day. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

Its chief -- if not its only -- attraction is an exceedingly quaint frontispiece -- a cavalier and lady standing with joined hands under a chandelier, the torches of which are held by a ring of seven Cupids, so that the lower one hangs downwards, and the disengaged hand of the cavalier, which is raised, seems to be grabbing at him. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

The cavalier was a light-built fellow, with good-humoured sun-burnt features, a shrewd and lively black eye, and a head covered with a crop of close curly black hair, and surmounted with a turf-coloured caubeen, in the pack-thread band of which was stuck a short pipe, which had evidently seen much service. ❋ Unknown (1880)

As he had his mother's permission to marry any woman he liked, he only asked was she of noble lineage, and being told that she was, he demanded her in marriage of the Queen of Navarre, who very gladly bestowed her upon him, knowing well that the cavalier was as wealthy as he was well-bred and handsome. ❋ Unknown (1855)

The shockingly poor, almost mediaeval, education of the Austrian so - called cavalier, made me rather despise the latter; the girls, too, had suffered from the same lack of proper training. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)

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