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CAVALIER , a horseman, particularly a See also:horse-soldier or one of See also:gentle See also:birth trained in knightly exercises. The word is taken from one of the See also:French words which derived ultimately from the See also:Late See also:Lat. caballarius, a horseman, from Lat. caballus, properly a See also:pack-horse, which gave the Fr. cheval, a See also:chevalier. This last word is the See also:regular French for " See also:knight," and is chiefly used in See also:English for a member of certain See also:foreign military or other orders, particularly of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. Cavalier in English was See also:early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant. In See also:Shakespeare (2 See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. v. iii. 62) Shallow. calls Bardolph's companions " cavaleros." " Cavalier " is chiefly associated with the Royalists, the supporters of See also:Charles I. in the struggle with the See also:Parliament in .the See also:Great See also:Rebellion. Here again it first appears as a See also:term of reproach and contempt, applied by the opponents of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. Charles in the See also:Answer to the See also:Petition (See also:June 13, 1642) speaks of cavaliers as a " word by what See also:mistake soever it seemes much in disfavour." Further quotations of the use of the word by the See also:Parliamentary party are given in the New English See also:Dictionary. It was soon adopted (as a See also:title of honour) by the king's party, who in return applied See also:Roundhead to their opponents, and at the Restoration the See also:court party preserved the name, which survived till the rise of the term Tory (see WHIG AND Toxy). The term " cavalier " has been adopted from the French as a term in fortification for a See also:work of great command constructed in the
interior of a fort, See also:bastion or other See also:defence, so as to See also:fire over the See also:main See also:parapet without interfering with the fire of the latter. A greater See also:volume of fire can thus be obtained, but the great height of the cavalier makes it an easy See also:target for a besieger's guns.
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