Lofty vs Gallant - What's the difference?
lofty | gallant |
high, tall, having great height or stature
* {{quote-book
, year=1862
, author=George Borrow
, title=Wild Wales
, chapter=98
idealistic, implying over-optimism
* 2013 , Delme Parfitt in Wales Online'', ''Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win (3 November 2013)
extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
* F. Harrison
Brave, valiant.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Honorable.
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Grand, noble.
(lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
* Sir Walter Scott
(nautical) topgallant
(obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
(obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
As a proper noun lofty
is (informal) nickname for a tall (usually male) person.As an adjective gallant is
brave, valiant or gallant can be polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.As a noun gallant is
(dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.As a verb gallant is
(obsolete|transitive) to attend or wait on (a lady).lofty
English
Adjective
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- a lofty bed
- a lofty goal
- A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
gallant
English
Alternative forms
* gallaunt (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- 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.
- The town is built in a very gallant place.
- our royal, good and gallant ship
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...]
- 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,
- Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
Verb
(en verb)- to gallant ladies to the play
- to gallant a fan