A knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle).
Roget 854:
fop,
fine gentleman;
swell;
dandy,
dandiprat†;
exquisite,
coxcomb,
beau,
macaroni,
blade,
blood,
buck,
man about town,
fast man;
fribble,
milliner†;
Jemmy Jessamy†,
carpet knight;
masher,
dude.
fine lady,
coquette;
flirt,
vamp.
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Roget 886:
servility;
slavery
etc.
(subjection)
749;
obsequiousness
etc.
adj.;
subserviency;
abasement;
prostration,
prosternation†;
genuflection
etc.
(worship)
990;
fawning
etc.
v.;
tuft-hunting,
timeserving†,
flunkeyism†;
sycophancy
etc.
(flattery)
933;
humility
etc.
879.
sycophant,
parasite;
toad,
toady,
toad-eater;
tufthunter†;
snob,
flunky,
flunkey,
yes-man,
lapdog,
spaniel,
lickspittle,
smell-feast,
Graeculus esuriens [Lat.],
hanger on,
cavaliere servente [It],
led captain,
carpet knight;
timeserver,
fortune hunter,
Vicar of Bray,
Sir-Pertinax,
Max Sycophant,
pickthank†;
flatterer
etc.
935;
doer of dirty work;
ame damnee [Fr.],
tool;
reptile;
slave
etc.
(servant)
746;
courtier;
beat [Slang],
dead beat [Slang],
doughface [U.S.],
heeler [U.S.],
homme de cour [Fr.],
sponger,
sucker [Slang],
tagtail†,
truckler.
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Roget 954a:
Sybarite,
voluptuary,
Sardanaphalus,
man of pleasure,
carpet knight;
epicure,
epicurean,
gourmet,
gourmand;
pig,
hog;
votary of Epicurus,
swine of Epicurus;
sensualist;
Heliogabalus;
free liver,
hard liver;
libertine
etc.
962;
hedonist;
tragalist†.
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