[f. prec. sb.] a. intr. To play the cavalier. b. trans. To act as cavalier or escort to (a lady). Hence Cavaliering vbl. sb.
1594. Nashe, Terrors Night, Wks. 1883–4, III. 279. Bridewell or Newgate prooue the ende of your caueleering.
1693. Shadwell, Volunteers, I. i. 2. I must flye from the University forsooth, to run a Cavaliering.
1748–61. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VII. 171. Cavaliering it here over half a dozen persons of distinction.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xvi. 427. From his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer.
