Cavalier - Definition and Overview

• Cavaliers were gentlemen supporters of the Royalist cause during the English Civil Wars (1642–1651). The Parliamentarians on the other side were called Roundheads.

• More generally Cavalier means cavalryman, from the French Chevalier.

• Cavalier is also the name of two makes of General Motors J-body cars; the Chevrolet Cavalier in the US, and the Vauxhall Cavalier in the UK.

• Cavalier is also the sports mascot of the University of Virginia. In professional sports, the Cleveland Cavaliers are a basketball team in the National Basketball Association.

• Cavalier also describes the shape of a particular style of tobacco pipe.

• Used as an adjective Cavalier (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cavalier) means showing an arrogant or jaunty disregard or lack of respect for something or somebody, particularly something of somebody in authority.

• Two different passenger trains operated under the name Cavalier. They were operated by the Norfolk & Western (Cincinnati, OH-Norfolk, VA) and the Pennsylvania (New York, NY-Cape Charles) railroads.

• The Cavalier was a men's magazine published from 1908 to 1914.

• Cavalier was a men's magazine, unrelated to The Cavalier, published from 1952 to some time in the 1990s. It was one of the first magazines to publish the work of Stephen King.

• The Cavaliers are a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Rosemont, Illinois. They compete in the Drum Corps International circuit.