Usually means: Knight honored more for courtliness.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word carpet knight:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpet knight: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpet knight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpet knight: Collins English Dictionary
  4. carpet knight: Vocabulary.com
  5. carpet-knight, carpet knight: Wordnik
  6. carpet knight: Wiktionary
  7. Carpet knight, carpet knight: Dictionary.com
  8. carpet knight: Rhymezone
  9. Carpet Knight: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  10. Carpet Knight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. carpet knight: FreeDictionary.org
  12. carpet knight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. carpet knight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpet knight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See carpet_knights as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (carpet knight)

noun:  (historical) One made a knight during a time of peace and therefore for some reason other than military distinction or service.
noun:  (obsolete) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field.
noun:  (dated) One who avoids hard work; a fop; an idler.
noun:  (obsolete) A lady's man.

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