preux chevalier

English

Etymology

French

Noun

preux chevalier (plural preux chevaliers)

  1. A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman.
    • 1865, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Half a million of money
      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.

Usage notes
  • Often italicized as a foreign borrowing.
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