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Quotation dates: 1603-1655
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Caveleir, Cavileir, n. Also: cavel-, cavilear, cavill(y)ear; cavallar. [e.m.E. caveelere, inexact form of cavalere, cavalier, etc. More correct forms, as cavaleire, are also used in Sc. ] A cavalier. 1603 Moysie 65.
Ane Johne Smollote, and with him a Frenche cavillyear 1626 Garden Worthies 102.
He … drew With much admiring, each cavallars eie, His wondrous valour in those warrs to wiew 1654 Lamont Diary 79.
Many plotts hatched by the Caueleirs 1655 Nicoll Diary 150.
Sindrie cavillearis did ryse … in England 1655 Ib. 153.
The cavileiris in England
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