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Definition of Cavalier

1. Adjective. Given to haughty disregard of others.

2. Noun. A gallant or courtly gentleman.

3. Noun. A royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.

Definition of Cavalier

1. n. A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

2. a. Gay; easy; offhand; frank.

Definition of Cavalier

1. Adjective. Not caring enough about something important. ¹

2. Adjective. High-spirited. ¹

3. Adjective. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. ¹

5. Noun. A military man serving on horse. ¹

6. Noun. A sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. ¹

7. Noun. One of the court party in the time of King Charles I, as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. ¹

8. Noun. A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. ¹

9. Noun. A well mannered man; a gentleman. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cavalier

1. to behave haughtily [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavalier

cautious statement cautiously cautiousness cautiousnesses cauves cava cavagram caval caval fold caval valve

cavalcades cavalero cavaleros cavaletti cavalier (current term) cavalier hat cavaliered cavaliering cavalierish cavalierism

cavalierisms cavalierly cavalierness cavaliers cavalla cavallas cavalletti cavallies cavally

Literary usage of Cavalier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"This defeat, followed by the betrayal to the king's troops of the caverns in which the insurgents had concealed their stores of all kinds, disposed cavalier ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"MEMOIRS OF A cavalier 1720? The most life-like account of the Civil Wars in England in the seventeenth century that I know is contained in De Foe's "Memoirs ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"cavalier SEUL THIS is my friend Bob Hely, performing the cavalier seul in a quadrille. Remark the good-humoured pleasure depict«! in his countenance. ..."

4. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1919)
"THE DARK cavalier I am the Dark cavalier; I am the Last Lover: Padraic Colum My arms shall welcome you when other arms are tired; I stand to wait for you, ..."

5. Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1920)
"His verse, while sometimes strained and over-decorated, is chastely designed, rich and, like that of the cavalier poets of the seven- tenth century, ..."

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