GALLANT (3)

gallant (3). Gallant, a. brave, bald, noble, fine, gay, showy

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Gal‐lant″ (?; 277), n. 1. 1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.
2. 2. One fond of paying attention to ladies.
3. 3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.
☞ In the first sense it is by some orthoëpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.