Meaning of gallantise | Babel Free

Examples

“It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;”

“What were the squabbles of that gate-porter and his wife to the disputes which ensued when Mr. Bull, after flirting his full with Miss India, after diverting himself with Miss Australia, after gallantising it with Miss Canada, and other members of his extensive seraglio, came home, and, hanging his fiddle behind the door, proceeded to exercise his marital privileges by loading her that was nearest, and should be dearest, to him with chains, lashing her with scorpions, and behaving with the cruelty of a stepfather to her beloved and patriotic offspring?”

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