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单词 Cavalier King Charles spaniel
释义

cavalier /ka-və-lērˈ/

noun
  1. A knight
  2. (with cap) a Royalist in the English Civil War
  3. A swaggering fellow
  4. A gallant or gentleman in attendance upon a lady, as her escort or partner in a dance or the like
  5. (in military fortification) a raised work so situated as to command the neighbouring country
adjective
  1. Like a cavalier
  2. Warlike
  3. Haughty, supercilious, devil-may-care, incautious
intransitive verb

To act as cavalier to a lady

ORIGIN: Fr, from Ital cavallo; see cavalcade

cavalierˈish adjective

Like, or characteristic of, a cavalier

cavalierˈism noun

cavalierˈly adverb

  1. Offhand
  2. Haughtily, with supercilious disregard or curtness
adjective

Cavalierish

Cavalier King Charles spaniel see under spaniel

spaniel /spanˈyəl/

noun
  1. A kind of dog, usu liver-and-white, or black-and-white, with large pendent ears
  2. A fawning person
adjective
  1. Like a spaniel
  2. Fawning, mean
transitive verb (Shakespeare)

To follow or fawn on like a spaniel

intransitive verb (or transitive verb with it)

To play the spaniel

ORIGIN: OFr espaigneul (Fr épagneul), from Sp español Spanish

spanˈiel-like adjective and adverb

Blenheim spaniel

A red-and-white spaniel named from the Duke of Marlborough's seat

Cavalier King Charles spaniel

A larger variety of King Charles spaniel

clumber spaniel

A lemon-and-white spaniel formerly bred at Clumber, Notts

field- or land-spaniel

Hunting breeds (eg cockers, springers)

(Irish) water spaniel

A (liver-coloured) spaniel for retrieving water fowl

King Charles spaniel

A breed of small spaniel, made fashionable by Charles II

Sussex spaniel

A golden-liver or -brown spaniel

toy spaniel

Any of the smaller breeds (eg Blenheim, King Charles)

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