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n. A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman.
Wikipedia
Preux Chevalier (1978 – 2 June 2007) was a pacer (racing horse) foaled in New Zealand but notable for his racing successes in Australia in 1984 and 1985 including wins in the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship, Miracle Mile and A G Hunter Cup .
Usage examples of "preux chevalier".
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.