Thesaurus: cavalier

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1. n. A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
2. n. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
3. n. One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
4. n. A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
5. a. Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
6. a. High-spirited.
7. a. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
8. a. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
9. n. a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
10. adj. given to haughty disregard of others
11. n. a gallant or courtly gentleman
12. 1. A military man serving on horseback; a knight. 2. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. 3. One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon. 4. (Fort.) A work of more that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt. 2. High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling. 3. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. 4. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.