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CARPET KNIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carpet knight mean?
• CARPET KNIGHT (noun)
The noun CARPET KNIGHT has 1 sense:
1. a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle)
Familiarity information: CARPET KNIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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