"chevalière" meaning in French

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          "text": "Je suis pour le moment au service d’une noble dame, d’une chevalière errante à laquelle je sers d’écuyer, de page, et de bouffon; dont je suis le guide et le défenseur.",
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          "english": "[…] this knight is a knightess … a poor woman like me!",
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          "english": "Edith is a rascal [a chevalier d'industrie] and a flirt, whose adventures critics have sometimes disdained as rather meagre and not particularly fascinating.",
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