chivalrous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

chivalrous
    adj 1: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn:
           {chivalrous}, {gallant}, {knightly}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Chivalrous \Chiv"al*rous\, a. [OF. chevalerus, chevalereus, fr.
   chevalier. See {Chivalry}.]
   Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic;
   gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
   [1913 Webster]

         In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise.  --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "chivalrous":
      aristocratic, benevolent, big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited,
      brave, ceremonious, charitable, chivalric, considerate, courageous,
      courteous, courtly, doughty, ducal, elevated, exalted, formal,
      gallant, generous, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly,
      gracious, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hardy,
      heroic, herolike, high, high-minded, idealistic, intrepid,
      ironhearted, kind, kinglike, kingly, knightlike, knightly,
      ladylike, largehearted, liberal, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous,
      manful, manly, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank,
      old-fashioned, old-world, openhanded, patrician, polite,
      princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady,
      soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, sublime,
      titled, valiant, valorous