Gallant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.

   “That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.”

2. sıfat Honorable.
3. sıfat Grand, noble.
4. sıfat Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

   “This town is built in a very gallant place.”

5. sıfat Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

   “I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me. But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Oh! I assure you I began to think my caro sposo would be absolutely jealous.”

6. isim A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.

   “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 […]”

7. isim One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.

   “[…] 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.”

8. isim A topgallant.
9. fiil To attend or wait on (a lady).

   “to gallant ladies to the play”

10. fiil To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

    “to gallant a fan”

11. fiil To conduct, escort, convey.

    “... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.”

12. fiil To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.

    “How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]”

13. özel isim A surname.
14. özel isim A census-designated place in Etowah County and St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, named after a pioneer settler.