Cavalier

a gay military kav-a-leer' man, s.; a knight a lady's or man; gentleman a partizan soldier of: Charles I.; an elevation for cannon within a bastion [Fort.]: a. gay, easy and offhand, like a cavalier; haughty; disdainful; connected with the cavaliers: v.a. to act cavalierly. Cavalierly, kav-á-leer'-le, ad. in a cavalier manner.