Brewer's: Knights of the Chamber

or Chamber Knights, are knights bachelors made in times of peace in the presence chamber, and not in the camp. Being military men, they differ from “carpet knights,” who are always civilians.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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