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CAVALCADOUR

Volume 5 · 59 words · 1823 Edition

or CAVALCADEUR, anciently denoted a riding master; but at present is disused in that sense, and only employed to denote a sort of equerries or officers who have the direction of princes stables. The French say, ecuyer cavaleadeur of the king, the duke of Orleans, &c. Menage writes it cavalcadeur, and derives it from the Spanish cavalcador, a horseman.