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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Brave, valiant.
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
- Honorable.
- Grand, noble.
- (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Substantiivit
- (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
- One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- (nautical) topgallant
Verbit
- (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
- (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
Esimerkit
- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- Captain Edward Carlisle[...]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The town is built in a very gallant place.
- our royal, good and gallant ship
- PROSPERO: [...] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd /with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person [...]
- About a midnight gallant, seen to climb
- I will from her turn off, [...]
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
- A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
- Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey.
- to gallant ladies to the play
- to gallant a fan
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