A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.
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.
High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling.
Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.
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