(a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
(a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
(n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
(n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.
(n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
(v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
(v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.
Example Sentences:
(1) While bus passengers aren't particularly gallant, on the underground there hasn't been a single rush-hour journey when someone hasn't stood up to offer me a seat.
(2) A few months ago I visited a house in Rawalpindi with a giant poster over the windows, depicting a heroic warrior on a gallant white steed.
(3) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
(4) He leads gallant, battling Stan Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
(5) "Fucking hypocrite slut," quipped one gallant observer.
(6) Gallant has reminded us of the "tragedy of delayed treatment."
(7) O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” – what does it mean?
(8) Reading had been enduring a similar slump, apart from their FA Cup run and gallant 2-1 defeat against Arsenal, after extra time, in their semi-final at Wembley.
(9) Korean defenders Kwang Chon and Nam Chol were magnificent, as was their gallant forward Jong.
(10) In doing so, she perfects the song, narrowing the sarcasm of "gallant South" to a fine point and cooling the temperature of the most overheated image: "the stench of burning flesh".
(11) Valcke gallantly told the supermodel he was French and kissed her three times.
(12) What on earth happened to the gallant tradition of “pozzing”: making positive remarks?
(13) The Independent’s latest proprietors, the Lebedevs , have done their best to keep the gallant paper afloat – well served by a tiny but committed and talented team of journalists – and have conceded defeat.
(14) Dave Hill gallantly interviews the Liberal Democrat runner, Caroline Pidgeon here , but she’s an also-ran.
(15) But Bolton gallantly hit back with two goals, one by Moir, with Farm at fault again, the second a brave header by Bell himself.
(16) The figure has been touted by Ukip on the slender basis that they have been wined and dined by the gallant spread-bet king, Stuart Wheeler, in his over-priced Mayfair flat (as indeed have I).
(17) Pigs heterozygous for the halothane-sensitivity gene exhibit a distinct phenotype with regard to both in vivo and in vitro muscle responses to halothane (E. M. Gallant, J. R. Mickelson, B. D. Roggow, S. K. Donaldson, C. F. Louis, and W. E. Rempel.
(18) They will not want the tag of gallant losers but the players in red and white gave everything, as they always do, before the agonies of a penalty shoot-out when Lucas Vázquez, Marcelo, Bale, Sergio Ramos and, finally, Ronaldo all scored for Real in the same corner.
(19) The gallant lad had never complained, merely tried to keep Michel and James Murdoch happy by feeding them upbeat messages about their BSkyB bid.
(20) The lyrics are very traditional national-anthem stuff about a “land of hope” and “full gallant legions”, and the pay-off at the end is “the fatherland of true brotherhood”, which is half right-wing and half left-wing, which is probably what any good national anthem should aspire to.
Seducer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seduced into believing they could be a big influencer in Platini’s new Fifa, they rushed unthinkingly to back him.
(2) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(3) Saying that he had been “hung out to dry”, Blackburn denied in evidence that he had ever been interviewed by BBC staff about an episode dating back to 1971 when it was suggested that he had been involved in “seducing” 15-year-old Claire McAlpine after meeting her at a recording of Top of the Pops.
(4) It's only when they consider being seduced by the conventional rock'n'roll life that they get serious.
(5) And this sort of reading works, up to a point: Eusa is humanity seduced by knowledge and power, the Littl Shynin Man is the atom, and both unleash terrible chaos when split.
(6) Tony Hayward, chief executive of the UK's largest oil company, said that British government ministers risked being seduced by "headline-grabbing options" such as offshore wind and clean coal in a bid to bolster energy security and meet climate-change goals.
(7) In this, Trump’s greatest assets are a public that demands nothing too complicated from the arbiters of political discourse and a media culture that is all too eager to oblige.” Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America Publication: The Spectator (UK) Author: Hugo Rifkind Rifkind writes for the Spectator and the Times, and while he has supported liberal social measures and even joined Labour to vote against Jeremy Corbyn, he comes from Tory stock, and is best understood as a moderate conservative.
(8) Also, remember that Don was also almost seduced by alternative lifestyles before, only to find that the people practising them were entirely shallow.
(9) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(10) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(11) They too have also been developing homegrown talent and using a diverse scouting network to find hidden gems in the Ukrainian second division watching the Euros, and seen that Spain have a winger called Nolito , and that he doesn’t play for Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid, and are ready to bet that he also has the capacity to be seduced by money, initial optimism and birthday cake.
(12) The young did vote a bit more in 2010 than in 2005, seduced by the Lib Dem fees pledge , but no broken promise was ever better designed to disillusion first-time voters.
(13) He'd become lazy and complacent, seduced by alcohol and drugs.
(14) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
(15) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
(16) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(17) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(18) To read some of our tabloid newspapers – which are not adverse to showing the odd bare breast – you might be seduced into thinking that the still-unfolding scandal of faulty breast implants made by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) was just about vain women seeking Barbie Doll-style boob jobs.
(19) And I have a dream that stupid songs about seducing "good girls" will be laughed at instead of sent to No 1.
(20) After all, he was an accomplished viola player before the lure of the guitar seduced him.