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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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Etymology of 'Gallant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gallant" Quotes from Famous Books

... as the steamer itself, came up alongside her hull; it rose higher and higher on the waves; it was already above the poop; it fell over the Forward. All was lost; it was now upright, higher than the gallant yards, and it shook on its foundation. A cry of terror escaped the crew. Everyone fled to starboard. But at this moment the steamer was lifted completely up, and for a little while she seemed to be suspended in the air, ...

— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

... The French infantry was less trustworthy. The troops raised in Normandy, Brittany, and Languedoc were reported to be but poorly trained to military exercises; but the foot-soldiers supplied by some of the frontier provinces were sturdy and efficient, and the gallant conduct of the Gascons at the disastrous battle of St. Quentin was ...

— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird

... to restore good taste in poetry, prescribed conditions by which everybody, of whatever age or sex, could become a poetaster, and good society expected every gentleman and lady to be in love. The Arcadia still exists, but that gallant society hardly survived the eighteenth century. Perhaps the greatest wonder about it is that it could have lasted so long as it did. Its end was certainly not delayed for want of satirists who perceived its folly ...

— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells

... to the field, gallant Spartan band, Worthy sons, like your sires, of our warlike land! Let each arm be prepared for its part in the fight, Fix the shield on the left, poise the spear with the right; Let no care for your lives in your bosoms find place, No such care knew the heroes ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

... view, with its strong fortress crowning the imposing height of Cape Diamond. No one can look upon the old capital of Canada without remembering that the most gallant British soldier of the age fell in the battle that added the colony to the other ...

— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland

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