Dictionaries:
gallant:
1. Smartly or boldly stylish; showy in dress and manner.2. Brave; noble; high-spirited; selflessly resolute.
3. Polite, courteous, attentive, especially to women.
Synonyms: attentive; cavalier ; chivalrous; chivalric; considerate; courteous; courtly; gentlemanly; gracious; noble; old-world; suave; urbane .
4. Flirtatious; courteous; amorous .
5. A fashionable young man .
6. A man courteously attentive to women; by extension, a ladies'-man . Dated. See ladies'-man for synonyms.
7. A woman's lover ; a suitor or paramour .
See Also: cavalier, street girl, street walker, street whore, street worker, streetwalker, streetwalking prostitute
Quotes Containing gallant:
Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda) in Jezebel (1938): ''Great ladies and gallant street-girls have a lot in common.''
Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda) in Jezebel (1938): ''Great ladies and gallant street-girls have a lot in common.''
''Great ladies and gallant street-girls have a lot in common.'' Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda) in Jezebel (1938).
''Great ladies and gallant street-girls have a lot in common.'' Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda) in Jezebel (1938).
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