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Boringly, a female 'Chevalier de la légion d'honneur' is a 'Femme Chevalier de la légion d'honneur' .
Medieval French had two words, chevaleresse and chevalière. The first was for the wife of a knight, the other, chevalière, was a female knight; this usage goes back to the 14th c..
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