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cavalier 音标拼音: [k ,ævəl'ɪr] n. 骑士,武士 骑士,武士 cavalier adj 1: given to haughty disregard of others [ synonym: { cavalier}, { high- handed}] n 1: a gallant or courtly gentleman [ synonym: { cavalier}, { chevalier}] 2: a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War [ synonym: { Cavalier}, { Royalist}] Cavalier \ Cav` a* lier"\ ( k[ a^] v`[. a]* l[= e] r"), n. [ F. cavalier, It. cavaliere, LL. caballarius, fr. L. caballus. See { Cavalcade}, and cf. { Chevalier}, { Caballine}.] 1. A military man serving on horseback; a knight. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. [ 1913 Webster] 3. One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Fort.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. [ 1913 Webster]
Cavalier \ Cav` a* lier"\, a. offhand; unceremonious; gay; easy; frank. Opposed to { serious}. [ 1913 Webster PJC] The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, form a complete contrast. -- Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster] 2. High- spirited. [ Obs.] " The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." -- Suckling. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. " An old Cavalier family." -- Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster] 113 Moby Thesaurus words for " cavalier": Bayard, Casanova, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Lothario, Ritter, Romeo, Sidney, Sir Galahad, abrupt, aggressive, amoroso, arrogant, bachelor, banneret, baronet, bearish, beastly, beau, bluff, blunt, bodyguard, boyfriend, brash, broncobuster, brusque, buckaroo, caballero, cavaliere servente, cavalryman, chaperon, chevalier, churlish, circus rider, companion, conductor, contemptuous, contumelious, convoy, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, crusty, curt, disdainful, dismissive, duenna, equestrian, equestrienne, escort, esquire, fellow, fellow traveler, flame, gallant, gaucho, gigolo, gruff, guard, harsh, haughty, high- and- mighty, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, inamorato, insolent, jockey, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight- errant, lady- killer, lofty, love- maker, man, mounted policeman, necker, old man, overbearing, petter, philanderer, postboy, postilion, puncher, rider, rough, roughrider, safe- conduct, seducer, severe, sharp, sheik, shepherd, short, snippy, squire, steeplechaser, sugar daddy, supercilious, superior, surly, swain, trick rider, truculent, usher, vaquero, young man
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