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Definition of Carpet knight
1. Noun. A knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet Knight
Literary usage of Carpet knight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... and CARPET- SQUIRE, arc also used in tlie saim- sense as carpet-knight. ...
The behaviour of the carpet-knight, flattery. ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... His square-turned joints and strength of limb, Showed him no carpet knight so
trim, But in close fight a champion grim, In camps a leader sage. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See Trench, Select Glossary. carpet-knight, a contemptuous term for a knight
whose achievements belong rather to the carpet (the lady's boudoir) than to the ..."
4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... But he he was in no danger of degenerating into a mere carpet-knight. When he
was only fourteen years old he served in the short and dashing campaign ..."
5. A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World by Clara Fitzroy (Kelly) Bromley (1861)
"... the island and the honour of the Spanish crown, should be no mere carpet
knight, but one possessed of " the mind to •will, the hand to execute. ..."
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