Cavalier
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Cavalier has multiple meanings:
- 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 (not to be mistaken with the French meaning of cavalier, which is horse-rider).
- 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.
- 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 Drum and Bugle Corps is a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Rosemont, Illinois. They compete in the Drum Corps International circuit.