cavalry
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cavalery (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle French cavalerie, in turn from Italian cavalleria. Recorded in English from the 1540s. Doublet of chivalry.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cavalry (countable and uncountable, plural cavalries)
- (military, usually historical, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXXIII, in The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:
- Two hundred heavily-armed cavalry rode behind the Audley standard, while close at their heels came the Duke of Lancaster with a glittering train, heralds tabarded with the royal arms riding three deep upon cream-colored chargers in front of him.
- (military, countable) An individual unit of this arm of service.
- (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.
- (figurative) A source of rescue, especially in an emergency.
- call in the cavalry
- 2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary[1], archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
- "We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]military service that fights with riding horses
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an individual unit of cavalry
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mechanized cavalry — see mechanized cavalry
References
[edit]- Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. →ISBN, →ISBN
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