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cavalier | |
1. adj. Not caring enough about something important. | |
2. adj. High-spirited. | |
3. adj. Supercilious. | |
4. adj. (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. | |
5. n. (chiefly) A military man serving on horse, label, en, chiefly early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights. | |
6. n. (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man. | |
7. n. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly: | |
8. n. (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign. | |
9. n. (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area. | |
10. v. (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women). | |