| carpet knight | |
| —n | |
| derogatory a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| carpet knight | |
noun | |
| a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle) |