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Definition: Carpet Knight |
Carpet KnightNoun1. A knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Carpet Knight One dubbed at Court by favour, not having won his spurs by military service in the field. Mayors, lawyers, and other civilians knighted as they kneel on a carpet before their sovereign. "Knights of the Carpet," "Knights of the Green Cloth," "Knights of Carpetry." "The subordinate commands fell to young patricians, carpet-knights, who went on campaigns with their families and slaves."- Froude: Caesar, chap. iv. p. 91. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fop | Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude. |
Sensualist | Noun: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine; hedonist; tragalist. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Carpet Knight |
| English words defined with "carpet knight": Fair-weather sailor. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "carpet knight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | тилов герой, паркетен кавалер (gigolo). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalonhõs. (various references) | |
Manx | far-reejerey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arpetcay ightknay.(various references) | |
Romanian | soldat mobilizat pe loc, parvenit (cocktail, mushroom, nouveau riche, parvenu, squirt, upstart), erou de salon. (various references) | |
Russian | солдат (Joe, Joe Blow, pawn, purdue, soldier, trencher), салонный шаркун. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | salonski junak. (various references) | |
Spanish | aventurero solo. (various references) | |
Swedish | dagdrivare (dangler, dawdler, deadbeat, Idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, lounger). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | солдат-тиловик, дамський догідник (gallant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Trichophaga tapetzella. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-i-k-n-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: chaptering, chattering, ratcheting, repatching. | |
-3 letters: carpeting, crepitant, packeting, pattering, preaching, preacting, racketing, repacking, retacking, threaping, threating. | |
-4 letters: argentic, capering, catering, chapiter, charking, charting, chattier, chatting, cheating, creaking, creating, earthing, gnathite, gnattier, graphite, haptenic, hearting, ingather, interact, nightcap, parching, patchier, patching, pathetic, peaching, pentarch, perching, perianth, phreatic, pittance, reaching, reacting, retaking, retaping, retching, tapering. | |
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