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Definition cavalier

Etymology

[1589] Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”),, borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caball?rius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) K?b 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic kobyla 'mare'.

Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero.

Adjective

cavalier (comparative more cavalier, superlative most cavalier)

1. Not caring enough about something important.
2. High-spirited.
3. Supercilious.
4. (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

Noun

cavalier (plural cavaliers)

1. (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
2. (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
   1. (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
4. (slang) A man or boy with an uncircumcised penis.
5. (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.

Verb

cavalier (third-person singular simple present cavaliers, present participle cavaliering, simple past and past participle cavaliered)

1. (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).

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