gallant

Meanings

Adjective

• Brave, valiant.
• honorable.
• grand, noble.
• Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
• Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

Noun

• A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
• One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
• topgallant

Verb

• To attend or wait on (a lady).
• To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

Origin

• From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant, present participle of galer, from gale; either from Frankish *wala-, from Proto-Germanic *wal-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-; or alternatively from Frankish *gail, from Proto-Germanic *gailaz, related to Dutch geil, German geil, Old English gāl.
• From French