Cavalier(3 syl.). A horseman; whence a knight, a gentleman. (Latin, caballus, a horse.)
Jean le Clerc, le chevalier. (1587-1633.) J. Battista Marini, Italian poet; Il cavalier (1569-1656). Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743). Cavalieror Chevalier de St. George. James Francis Edward Stuart, called “the Pretender,” or “the Old Pretender” (1688-1765). The Young Cavalier or the Bonnie Chevalier. Edward, the “Young Pretender” (1720-1785). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cavalier from Infoplease:
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