carpet knight

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

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Pepa was not far wrong in styling General Patio a carpet-knight.

Froth |Armando Palacio Valds
The air of the carpet-knight with which he had opened battle disappeared; he fought seriously and for victory.

The Testing of Diana Mallory |Mrs. Humphry Ward
M. de Mar, you look less like a carpet-knight than I expected.

Helmet of Navarre |Bertha Runkle
It is, indeed, from no featherbed journey or carpet-knight's tour that Mr Coke has recently returned.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 |Various

I will show her that she need have no need to be ashamed of him, though no carpet-knight, only an engine-driver.

An Ocean Tramp |William McFee