Group of English gentlemen poets who were Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I during the English Civil Wars). The term embraces Sir John Suckling, Edmund Waller, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew (1594?-1640?), and Richard Lovelace (1618-57). Accomplished as soldiers, courtiers, gallants, and wits, they wrote polished and elegant lyrics, typically on love and dalliance and sometimes on war, honour, and duty to the king
The popular nineteenth-century stereotype of the Southerner was that of a cavalier, who was alleged to be violently sensitive to insult, indifferent to money, and preoccupied by honor
disapproval If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation. The Editor takes a cavalier attitude to the concept of fact checking. a supporter of the King against parliament in the English Civil War of the 17th century Roundhead. not caring enough about rules, principles, or people's feelings (cavaliere, from caballarius , from caballus ). In the English Civil Wars, the name adopted by Charles I's supporters, who contemptuously called their opponents Roundheads (a reference to the short-haired apprentices who had formed part of an anti-Cavalier mob). The term (similar to the French chevalier) originally meant a rider or cavalryman. At the Restoration, the court party preserved the name Cavalier, which survived until the rise of the term Tory. See also Cavalier poet
A military man serving on horseback; a knight A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant Gay; easy; offhand; frank High-spirited Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque