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preux chevalier

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from French preux chevalier.

  1. borrowed from preux chevalier

Definitions

  1. A valiant knight

    A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman.

    • '[…]a piece of duty which, as a preux chevalier, you must immediately perform.'
    • Perhaps Saxon was secretly comforted by the conviction that only a preux chevalier would be worthy of Miss Colonna, and that the preux chevalier was certainly not forthcoming.

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