cavalier

Meanings

1. Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
2. High-spirited.
3. Supercilious.
4. Free and easy; unconcerned with formalities
5. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).

1. A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
2. A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly
4. A gentleman of the class of such officers
5. A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
6. Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
7. 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).

1. A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.

1. A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
2. A Chevrolet Cavalier.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.? Latin caballus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Late Latin -āriusnom. Late Latin -arius Late Latin caballāriusder. Old Occitan cavalierbor. Old Italian cavalierebor. Middle French cavalierbor. English cavalier 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.

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