Cavalier
[,kævə'lɪə] or [,kævə'lɪr]
Definition
(noun.) a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.
(noun.) a gallant or courtly gentleman.
(adj.) given to haughty disregard of others .
Typist: Serena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
(n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
(n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
(n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
(a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
(a.) High-spirited.
(a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
Typist: Murray
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Knight, equestrian, horseman, chevalier, horse-soldier.[2]. Partisan of Charles I.
a. Disdainful, haughty, arrogant, supercilious, scornful, insolent, pert, impertinent, saucy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ARROGANT]
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Definition
n. a knight: a Royalist in the great Civil War: a swaggering fellow: a gallant or gentleman in attendance upon a lady as her escort or partner in a dance or the like: in military fortification a raised work so situated as to command the neighbouring country.—adj. like a cavalier: gay: war-like: haughty supercilious free-and-easy.—v.i. to act as cavalier.—adj. Cavalier′ish.—n. Cavalier′ism.—adv. Cavalier′ly.—n. Cavalier′o a cavalier.—Cavaliere-servente (It.) one who waits upon a lady esp. a married lady with fantastic devotion—a cicisbeo.
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Examples
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I don't know whether you observed it, Watson, but the Colonel's manner has been just a trifle cavalier to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Lavvy came out to open the gate, waited on by that attentive cavalier and friend of the family, Mr George Sampson. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tippins, letting down the window, playfully extols the vigilance of her cavalier in being in waiting there to hand her out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The little one--he of Nunnely; the cavalier of the Misses Sykes, with the whole six of whom he is in love, ha! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- While the Moors governed there, and the Spanish mixed with them, a Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a young Moorish gentleman, and fled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Get up, and don't be a goose, Jo, was the cavalier reply to her petition. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed, and weareth a golden helmet? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From Marston Moor to Naseby these men swept the Cavaliers before them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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