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Meanings of gallant in English
Synonyms
Examples for "swell"
Examples for "swell"
1
Real swell customer, great credit history, just a screwup down in records.
2
Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
3
The ship was still rolling heavily in the swell after the gale.
4
What surprised me, however, was the huge swell of support for Kick-Ass.
5
Squire must be thinking of that right now in this deeper swell.
1
Instead of our putting the dude in jail he may jug us.
2
If the answer is yes, then you know that dude is solid.
3
Had the dude left the horse alone all might have gone well.
4
From the savage who knew nothing to the dude who know less.
5
Everybody liked him, he was always happy, a good dude, you know?
1
Which was just dandy keeno fine as far as she was concerned.
2
She was sure she'd wake up the following morning feeling peachy dandy.
3
In areas where there's no pesticides, they'll turn out fine and dandy.
4
Ye look right a dandy in blue silk doublet and slit pantaloons.
5
The dandy of the clubs had become a perambulating mass of rags.
1
Kate's father and Fiona's beau are outside waiting to take them home.
2
But that nice young man, he said you had a beau yourself.
3
Simplicity of arrangement is always the beau ideal of the mechanical engineer.
4
Bostwick met the proud old beau at the corner of the street.
5
He is the beau of the occasion, and she is the belle.
1
The sheik has finished his prayer in the silence of his chamber.
2
Who but the sheik could of right say to the caravan, Halt!
3
The sheik and the ulemas must be rescued, cost what it might.
4
When the Mahdists rode up the sheik rose and saluted their commander.
5
And, in fact, Phyllis gave a cool nod to her sheik friend.
1
He says he looks a fop in it, but he is wrong.
2
During this short dialogue, the ladies had gone on with the fop.
3
The fop ran behind a tree, to be safe from the fracas.
4
The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
5
You think of nothing but eating, and drinking, and playing the fop.
1
American socialite-cum-reality-TV-star-cum-clotheshorse Olivia Butterfield Palermo's website is an exercise in fashion-fixated egomania.
2
It was less than Miller owned, and he was hardly a clotheshorse.
3
I need something to hang things on in front of the fire, a clotheshorse-comealong-
4
Being a clotheshorse was one of her worst vices.
5
Rather a clever ruse, that of the clotheshorse.
1
And it proved an irresistible lure to the fashion plate princess.
2
And let it go, for the sake of that blond-haired, deer-eyed, fashion plate-
3
What in the name of wonder, are you doing with a fashion plate?
4
She looks like a fashion plate lady standing on the top of Mont Blanc.
5
They said they thought you were a regular fashion plate.
Usage of gallant in English
1
General Carey handles the pen well enough; not so his gallant brother-soldier.
2
But in Cesena the gallant Pedro Ramires lay in wait for them.
3
But they had their rivals in the gallant givers of the fete.
4
In distant Connecticut, gallant old General Putnam heard the news while plowing.
5
Many a gallant ship has found its grave in northern ice-clad waters.
6
His glance went swiftly to the long-haired gallant in the braided coat.
7
At an early hour in the morning the gallant crew set out.
8
The bravest men, the most gallant horses, fell in the first rank.
9
We must find the tall sunburnt man, the gallant in the blouse.
10
They met three times in eighteen months in a most gallant manner.
11
Yet he and his gallant band of Rangers were in the van.
12
And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
13
She said, 'You have not been fed by the gallant Captain Forbes.
14
Wherefore, live undaunted; and oppose gallant breasts against the strokes of adversity.
15
And in two seconds the gallant assistant was nowhere to be seen.
16
But they were all handsome men; stout, gallant, and ready in speech.
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Gallant through the time
Gallant across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare