It most literally translates from archaic French as valiant, and is often combined with the phrase preux [chevalier] which means valiant knight. Its common usage in the English language may be partially attributed to the author P.G. Wodehouse in his tales of [Bertram] Wooster, who would have learned to always be preux in his time at [Eaton] and Oxford.

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