† chavalleryn.
Obsolete.
1. = cavalry n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry
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1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xx. 107 Master of the Roman horsemen, or chauallerie.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xx. 238 To raise a Chavallery.
2. The cavalier n. and adj. party or cause (in 17th cent.).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause
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1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 5 The chavaleery lately prevailed.
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n.1619- to play upon words
- to play wag
- to play wily beguile oneself
- to play with
- to play with a person's head
- to play with a person's nose
- to play with both hands
- to play with fire
- to play with one's cards on the table
- to play with oneself
- to play with placebo
- to play with the big boys
- to play wort
- to play ——'s game
- to play, hold a lone hand
- to plead a cause
- to plead a person guilty
- to plead a person not guilty
- to plead ancient demesne
- to plead guilty
- to plead not guilty
- to plead over
- to plead specially
- to plead the baby act
- to please the cockles of a person's a person's cockles