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Cavalier
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- 1 Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
"But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion."
- 2 High-spirited.
- 3 Supercilious.
- 4 Free and easy; unconcerned with formalities obsolete
"Leporello (a surname that proved the antechamber not to be wholly illiterate), far from resembling Don Juan’s trembling valet, was a handsome young man, with an animated face, nimble in gait, and of cavalier manners; wearing elegantly enough the clothes which had, doubtless, appertained to his master; and evidently quite the pet of the ladies present, and paying assiduous court to Mademoiselle Astarté, the queen of the party."
- 5 Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649). historical
- 1 given to haughty disregard of others wordnet
- 1 A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
- 1 A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights. historical
- 2 A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
- 3 a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War wordnet
- 4 A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man. historical
- 5 A Chevrolet Cavalier.
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- 6 a gallant or courtly gentleman wordnet
- 7 A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly
- 8 A gentleman of the class of such officers; A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign. historical
- 9 Someone with an uncircumcised penis. slang
"The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers."
- 10 A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- 1 Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women). dated, transitive
"His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war."
Etymology
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier.
Named after Charles Cavileer, an early settler.
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