gallant.
Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
Meaning & usage
Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
Honorable.
Grand, noble.
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala (“good, well”), a variant form of *wela, from Proto-Germanic *wela (whence well), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English gāl (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Where this word comes from
17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
A topgallant.
Where this word comes from
17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
To attend or wait on (a lady).
to gallant ladies to the play
To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
to gallant a fan
To conduct, escort, convey.
To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
Where this word comes from
17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
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