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Usage examples of "preux".
Priding myself as I do on being a preux chevalier, I like to oblige the delicately nurtured when it's feasible, but there are moments when only a nolle prosequi will serve, and I recognized this as one of them.
Not, I mean, if you want to regard yourself as a preux chevalier, as the expression is, which is always my aim.
You can't search rooms with the domestic staff standing on the sidelines, but on the other hand it was impossible for anyone with any claim to be a preux chevalier to take her by the slack of her garment and heave her out.
It is the fact that you are so like what Brian most admires-that which is to be found in Sir John Chandos-a preux chevalier, you are a truly chivalric knight in that you could never do anything less than your knightly duty in all matters.
I said as Nefret gave me a quick hug and David, always the preux chevalier, relieved me of my heavy handbag.
A preux chevalier of the school of Bayard, he was no unworthy disciple of Petrarch.