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US
/ˈɡæɫənt/
]
ADJECTIVE
- being attentive to women like an ideal knight
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having or displaying great dignity or nobility
lofty ships
a gallant pageant
majestic cities
proud alpine peaks -
lively and spirited
a dashing hero -
unflinching in battle or action
put up a gallant resistance to the attackers
a gallant warrior
NOUN
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
How To Use gallant In A Sentence
- Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate.
- All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
- For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
- I teach young gentlemen the whole art of gallanting a fan.
- In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
- The topmast in turn supported the topgallant mast, which could be lowered and replaced, if necessary, even at sea.
- The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
- As she was starting to shiver, he gallantly wrapped his cloak around her shoulder.
- Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
- They stood their ground while the king and his party made a gallant retreat. Somewhere East of Life
