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Gallant   /gˈælənt/   Listen
adjective
Gallant  adj.  
1.
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. "The town is built in a very gallant place." "Our royal, good and gallant ship."
2.
Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. "That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds." "The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave."
Synonyms: Gallant, Courageous, Brave. Courageous is generic, denoting an inward spirit which rises above fear; brave is more outward, marking a spirit which braves or defies danger; gallant rises still higher, denoting bravery on extraordinary occasions in a spirit of adventure. A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict.


Gallant  adj.  Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.


noun
Gallant  n.  
1.
A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood.
2.
One fond of paying attention to ladies.
3.
One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Note: In the first sense it is by some orthoepists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.


verb
Gallant  v. t.  (past & past part. gallanted; pres. part. gallanting)  
1.
To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
2.
To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. (Obs.)





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"Gallant" Quotes from Famous Books



... man. Then the hunt includes as its adjuncts to the young ladies certain men in pink. They "form" on a roadside, and the master of the hunt says, "Ladies and gentlemen, will you hunt?" and he motions to the whipper-in—a gallant creature in pink also— ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... Doctor when you see him & tell him that I can scarsely find time to write you even a Love Letter. I will however for once give you a political Anecdote. Dr Smith Provost of the College here, by the Invitation of the Continental Congress, lately deliverd a funeral Oration on the gallant General Montgomery who fell at the Walls of Quebec. Certain political Principles were thought to be interwoven with every part of the Oration which were displeasing to the Auditory. It was remarkd that he could not even keep their Attention. A Circle ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams
... Republic. Born at Tusculum on the narrow acres which his peasant forefathers had tilled in the intervals of military service, he commenced advocate at the country assizes, followed his fortunes to Rome and there became a leader of the metropolitan bar. He saw gallant military service in Spain and in Greece, commanded an army, held all the curule offices of state and ended a contentious life in the Senate denouncing Carthage and the degeneracy of ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato
... his son than he had ever been since the day he last saw him in all the pride and beauty of a gallant young soldier. ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... o'clock afternoon, with a wind tempered to mildness by a bright sun. The streets were thronged, while the balconies and overhanging windows had their groups on the lookout for entertainment and gossip. As may be fancied the knightly rider and gallant barb, followed by a dark-skinned, turbaned servant in Moorish costume, attracted attention. Neither master nor man appeared to give heed to the eager looks and sometimes over-loud questions with which they ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace


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