gallant
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- n a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- n a man who attends or escorts a woman
- s unflinching in battle or action
a gallant warrior
put up a gallant resistance to the attackers - s lively and spirited
- s having or displaying great dignity or nobility
a gallant pageant - s being attentive to women like an ideal knight
- For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently .
- Part of his subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status as one of "the lost generation"those gallant young schoolboys whom fate and the nostalgic .
- He is the gallant and slightly desperate master of ceremonies of a weekly eruption called The Muppet Show, which in its third season on the air has become what is almost .