CARPET KNIGHT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("carpet knight" is a kind of...):

knight (originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit)

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