"beau sabreur" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beau (“handsome”) sabreur (“swordsman”), originally applied as a nickname of Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat (1767-1815) (see Scott quotation).",
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          "text": "At the last fatal moment he behaved with the courage to be expected from Le beau sabreur, placed on his breast a picture of his wife, refused to have his eyes bandaged, or to use a seat, and received six balls in his head, and fell without a groan.",
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          "ref": "1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, page 703",
          "text": "Murat met his fate as became le beau sabreur. He fastened his wife's picture on his breast, refused to have his eyes bandaged, or to use a seat, received six balls through his heart, and met the death he had braved with impunity in the thick of many conflicts, and sought in vain in many others.",
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          "ref": "1886 November, Thomas Carlyle, “Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere”, in Fraser's Magazine, volume LXXIV, number CCCCXLIII, page 572",
          "text": "Resembling Murat in personal enterprise and fearlessness, he also resembled that prince of beaux sabreurs in carrying his love of dress into the very field of battle.",
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          "ref": "1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 466",
          "text": "No longer was she that beau sabreur of suffrage brandishing her sword—for the sheath had outlived the sword as doubtless ... the body had outlived the soul.\nContextual note: In the source, \"she\" is frequently described with masculine (technicaly neutral) language (\"She was a man of the world.\")",
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          "text": "Kneller's portrait shows a handsome, even slightly effeminate young man, arrogant, perhaps petulant, but for many, the ideal beau sabreur.",
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        {
          "word": "belle sabreuse"
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