carpet knight

noun

1. derogatory.
   a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler

Example Sentences

He was at all events no carpet knight.

From Project Gutenberg

The expression of his countenance is more bold than handsome, and indeed he is anything but a carpet knight; a fact of which he seems, like a man of sense, quite aware.

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And there was one I must not call a page, Although too young yet to have won his spurs; Yet there was promise in his laughing eye, That in due time he'd prove no carpet knight; Now, bright companion on a summer sea, With wing�d words of gay or tasteful thought, He was fit clasp to this our social chain.

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After all, however, his brightest bays were gained in his character as carpet knight.

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An obtuse Legitimist, a besotted zealot, the Syllabus incarnate, a carpet knight and former member of the Mixed Commissions of 1851, during the war he had been expelled from Lille by the people, indignant alike at his utter incapacity and his antecedents.

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