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Dashing vs Gallant - What's the difference?

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Dashing is a related term of gallant.


As adjectives the difference between dashing and gallant

is that dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits while gallant is brave, valiant or gallant can be polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

As verbs the difference between dashing and gallant

is that dashing is while gallant is (obsolete|transitive) to attend or wait on (a lady).

As nouns the difference between dashing and gallant

is that dashing is the action of the verb to dash while gallant is (dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.

dashing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  • Chic, fashionable.
    • All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to dash.

    • Anagrams

    *

    gallant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gallaunt (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brave, valiant.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
  • Honorable.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • Grand, noble.
  • (lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
  • * (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
    • The town is built in a very gallant place.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • our royal, good and gallant ship
    Related terms
    * gallantly * gallantry

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • PROSPERO: [...] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd /with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person [...]
  • One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
    • The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
    About a midnight gallant , seen to climb
    A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
    I will from her turn off,
  • An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
  • (nautical) topgallant

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
    • to gallant ladies to the play
  • (obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
    • to gallant a fan

    References

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