preux chevalier
English
Etymology
French
Noun
preux chevalier (plural preux chevaliers)
- 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.
- 1865, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Half a million of money
Usage notes
- Often italicized as a foreign borrowing.