Gallant

Definitions

1. A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
   dated
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
4. A census-designated place in Etowah County and St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, named after a pioneer settler.
   countable, uncountable
5. A topgallant.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

“[…] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place⟳, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.”

“The ignominy of that whisper'd tale / About a midnight gallant, seen to climb⟳ / A window to her chamber neighbour'd near, / I will from her turn⟳ off, and put⟳ the load⟳ / On the right shoulders; on that wretch's head, […]”

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