cavalier
IPA: kævʌɫˈɪr
noun
- (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers
- (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
- (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- A small city, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
verb
- (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
adjective
- Not caring enough about something important.
- High-spirited.
- Supercilious.
- (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
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Examples of "cavalier" in Sentences
- I think the trucker was too cavalier.
- The current mascot of Callaway is the Cavalier.
- The school play was about the robust cavaliers.
- Fyodor Golovin was the first cavalier of the order.
- The cavalier poets were retrospective and nostalgic.
- My cavalier lack of acquiescence took me over the edge.
- He was a Cavalier and member of the Parliament of Scotland.
- Ramiro, the gallant cavalier, arrives with footmen carrying torches.
- Cavalier was the site of the early oppidum, which gave birth to the city.
- In the event only HMS Cavalier and HMS Caprice received it, in 1966 refits.