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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



... not discourteous in manner, but was so far from gallant that Kate felt a new and inconsistent resentment. Before she could say anything he added, "And I hope you will remember, whatever may happen, that I did my best to avoid staying here longer than was necessary to keep my friend from bleeding to ...
— Snow-Bound at Eagle's • Bret Harte
... mine, here ends one fytte Of this my tale, a gallant strain; And if ye will hear more of it, I'll soon ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... depressing as telling stories or making speeches at two o'clock in the afternoon. General Porter remarked that he could never tell a story till after eleven o'clock at night. He managed, however, to tell several of his best on this occasion. As the gallant General will tell them again, and I trust many times, I shall not publish them here. Mine are not worth repeating. As I said, I felt at the moment something like a well-known literary celebrity distinguished ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... you got him? Who is he? And are you willing to spare him? Few young ladies are. But you are different from most." The Superintendent was ever a gallant. ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor
... handling and gallant firing of the Gloucester excited the admiration of every one who witnessed it, and merits the commendation of the Navy Department. She is a fast and entirely unprotected auxiliary vessel,—the yacht Corsair,—and has a good ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis


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