Cavalier (disambiguation)

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A cavalier was a supporter of the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Cavalier or Cavelier may also refer to:

History

  • Virginia Cavaliers (historical)
  • Cavalier myth
  • Cavalier (fortification)

Corporations

  • Cavalier Chocolate, a Belgian chocolatier
  • Cavalier Records, a defunct American record label
  • Cavalier Telephone and TV a, U.S. internet and telephone company

Dance

  • Cavalier, a principal male role in The Nutcracker ballet
  • Cavalier, or kavalyé, a dancer in the Dominican folk dance bélé

People

  • Alain Cavalier (born 1931), French film director
  • Jean Cavalier (1681-1740), Huguenot guerilla leader during the War of the Camisards
  • Marie Cavallier (born 1976), second wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
  • Nita Cavalier (1906–1969), American silent film and stage actress
  • René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643–1687), French explorer best known as "La Salle"
  • Cavalier Johnson (born 1986), American politician
  • Cavelier Petit, American politician
  • Dorothy Cavalier Yanik (1928–2015), American visual artist and educator
  • J.M.A. Cavelier de Cuverville (1834–1912), a vice admiral of the French Navy after whom Cuverville Island is named

Places

Publications

  • Cavalier (comics), a DC Comics supervillain, a minor enemy of Batman
  • Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons), a warrior designation available to players of Dungeons & Dragons
  • Cavalier (magazine), a Fawcett Publications men's magazine
  • Cavalier (Nedor Comics), a Nedor Comics superhero from the Golden Age of Comics
  • Cavaliers and Roundheads, a set of rules for English Civil War miniature wargaming
  • The Scrap Book and The Cavalier, American pulp magazines published between 1906 and 1914

Sports teams

Transportation

Other

  • Cavalier (album), a 2007 album by Tom Brosseau
  • The Cavalier (film), a 1928 western
  • Cavalier (grape), another name for the white French wine grape Len de l'El
  • Cavalier (playing card)
  • Cavalier perspective, an oblique projection (a way to represent a three-dimensional object on a flat drawing)
  • Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a British breed of toy dog of spaniel type
  • Hilltop Manor (The Cavalier Apartment Building), a historic building in Washington, D.C., known as The Cavalier

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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