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adj
Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Honorable.
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adj
Grand, noble.
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adj
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adj
Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
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name
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A census-designated place in Etowah County and St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, named after a pioneer settler.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
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Usage: dated
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Synonyms: blade, blood, masher, barbermonger, beau, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
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noun
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: adulterer, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, lecher, lewdster, libertine, hood rat, philanderer, rake, rantipole, rizzler, roué, player, seducer, voluptuary, wanton
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noun
A topgallant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To attend or wait on (a lady).
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To conduct, escort, convey.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
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adjective satellite
unflinching in battle or action
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adjective satellite
being attentive to women like an ideal knight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chivalrous, knightly
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adjective satellite
having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lofty, majestic, proud
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adjective satellite
lively and spirited
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dashing
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noun
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dandy, dude, fop, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
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Broader terms: man, adult male
Narrower terms: coxcomb, cockscomb, macaroni, Brummell, George Bryan Brummell, Beau Brummell
noun
a man who attends or escorts a woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: squire
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Broader terms: attendant, attender, tender
History
From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala (“good, well”), a variant form of *wela, from Proto-Germanic *wela (whence well), from Proto-Indo-European *welh1- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English gāl (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.
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