(of men )男人 polite, kind and behaving with honour, especially towards women synonym gallant(尤指对女人)彬彬有礼的,殷勤的,体贴的 I was only trying to be chivalrous. 我只是想表现得有骑士风度。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryChivalrous is used with these nouns:- knight
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘characteristic of a medieval knight’): from Old French chevalerous, from chevalier from medieval Latin caballarius, from Latin caballus ‘horse’.