Carpet Knight

Definition: Carpet Knight

1. A knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle).

Specialty Definition: Carpet Knight

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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Synonyms within Context: Carpet Knight

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.

Modern Translation: Carpet Knight

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.

Ancestral Language Translations: Carpet Knight

Anagrams: Carpet Knight

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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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Trichophaga tapetzella. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.