Noun: cavalier
| Singular | cavalier |
| Plural | cavaliers |
Sample Sentences
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The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers. [1992, John Hoyland, Fathers and Sons, page 94:]
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Since penile preference is so tied up with personal aesthetics and body image, it seems both logical and fair to leave the choice of cavalier or roundhead to the owner of the organ, thus avoiding the sort of life-long pain expressed in a comment like this:[…] [2008, “Objections of a sentimental character: The subjective dimension of foreskin loss”, in Matatu, number 37, →OCLC, page 158:]
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I knew about the English Civil War, Cavaliers (wrong but romantic) versus Roundheads (right but repulsive), but I didn't think that was what he was talking about. I shook my head. “It means our willies aren't circumcised,” he explained. "Are you a cavalier or a roundhead?” [2013, Ellen Datlow, Hauntings, →ISBN, page 155:]
Nouns inflected like cavalier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
3. Latin caballus
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
5. Proto-Italic *-āzios
6. Latin -āriusnom.
7. Latin -ārius
8. Late Latin caballāriusder.
9. Old Occitan cavalierbor.
10. Old Italian cavalierebor.
11. Middle French cavalierbor.
12. English cavalier
13. First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic кобꙑла (kobyla) 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero. Doublet of caballero and chevalier. See: Latin Nouns '
caballus'.