gallant

IPA: gˈæɫʌnt

Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
honorable.
grand, noble.
(obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

Examples of "gallant" in Sentences

All the while their horses covered the ground in gallant form.
I don't like the tag of gallant losers but it was a magnificent effort.
"She didn't tell you to go that way," Max pointed out, in gallant defense of the demoiselle.
I resolved, therefore, to carry the village, which I soon did in gallant style with H. M.'s 50th and a detachment of the Honourable Company's 1st European Light Infantry under Captain Seaton and Lieutenant —.
He goes on from splendor to splendor, makes peculiarly his own the title "gallant," and on a March day in '63, shouting "Forward!" and smiling at troopers in a charge, he falls from his horse with a fatal wound.
Mademoiselle Sophie appeared to be highly interested, and kept looking at me while her brother was speaking, and, although she did not join in the praises her mother lavished upon me for what she called my gallant conduct, evidently regarded me as a hero.
In the West, I heard almost no word of the war -- inter-collegiate sports were far more interesting and important, the only sympathy for Canada was pity for her loss in gallant sons and in treasure-the United States had no reason to enter the war, for no gun yet invented could carry a shell from the sea to the Mississippi.