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galant

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Topics: art, arts, entertainment, lifestyle, music

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Meaning 2

Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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adj

Meaning 3

Alternative form of galant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

Real reading context

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