"preux chevalier" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 100:",
          "text": "\"I do not know any one who better realises my idea of a preux''' chevalier than Mr. Lorraine,\" replied Lady Mandeville. \"He is so very handsome, to begin with; and there is a romantic tone about him, which, to its original merits of fine taste and elevated feelings, adds also that of being very uncommon.\"",
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          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:",
          "text": "'[…]a piece of duty which, as a preux chevalier, you must immediately perform.'",
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          "ref": "1865, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Half a million of money:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman."
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          "text": "\"I do not know any one who better realises my idea of a preux''' chevalier than Mr. Lorraine,\" replied Lady Mandeville. \"He is so very handsome, to begin with; and there is a romantic tone about him, which, to its original merits of fine taste and elevated feelings, adds also that of being very uncommon.\"",
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