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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



... leafy boughs styled "Hosannas," which he whipped on the synagogue bench, his sins falling away with the leaves that flew to the ground as he cried, "Hosanna, save us now!" All through the night his father prayed in the synagogue, but the child went home to bed, after a gallant struggle with his closing eyelids, hoping not to see his headless shadow on the stones, for that was a sign of death. But the ninth day of Tabernacles was the best, "The Rejoicing of the Law," when the fifty-second portion of the Pentateuch ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... mile, is all made out of a bridle- track by my boys - and my dollars.) It was supposed a white man had been found - an ex-German artilleryman - to drive this last; he proved incapable and drunken; the gallant Henry, who had never driven before, and knew nothing about horses - except the rats and weeds that flourish on the islands - volunteered; Moors accepted, proposing to follow and supervise: despatched his work and started ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... That gallant son, hight Ranke, Avenged his father well; Grimhild entombed by Niflung's gold Of hunger-pain ...
— Grimhild's Vengeance - Three Ballads • Anonymous
... how to be wise in prosperity, and who ordered their city the more securely the greater it grew. Nor was this revolt, in which they might seem to have erred on the side of rashness, ventured upon until they had numerous and gallant allies to share the danger with them, and until they perceived the Athenians after the Sicilian disaster themselves no longer denying the thoroughly desperate state of their affairs. And if they were thrown out by one of the surprises which ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... the gallant grey circumnavigate the barge, while Robert de Winchelsey, the chancellor and archbishop to boot, was making out, albeit with great reluctance, the royal pardon. The interval was sufficiently long to enable his Majesty, who, gracious as he was, had always an eye to business, just to ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various


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