Citations:cavalier
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English citations of cavalier
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- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.
- 1989 - Fischer “Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fischer, p. 213-14
- These "distressed cavaliers" founded what would later be called the first families of Virginia. But they were not chronologically the first to settle in the colony. ... Every year of that troubled decade brought a fresh crop of cavaliers to Virginia.