gallant
IPA: gˈæɫʌnt
noun
- (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
- One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
- (nautical) A topgallant.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
- (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
- To conduct, escort, convey.
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "gallant" in Sentences
- Warriors are brave and gallant.
- Heroes are valiant and gallant.
- Gallant was unable to save the officer.
- The Gallant addition was an afterthought.
- He was courteous, gallant, and had a warm twinkling humor.
- Our gallant boys have marched to the rolling of the drums.
- All the while their horses covered the ground in gallant form.
- He was mortally wounded in the performance of this gallant deed.
- Ramiro, the gallant cavalier, arrives with footmen carrying torches.
- I don't like the tag of gallant losers but it was a magnificent effort.
- Bond is widowed and vulnerable but remains heroically gallant and libidinous.
- It was awarded for gallantry in the face of the enemy, or for gallant conduct.
- "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.