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Gallant is a synonym of mannerly.


As adjectives the difference between gallant and mannerly

is that gallant is brave, valiant or gallant can be polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous while mannerly is polite, having good manners.

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).

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

    * English heteronyms ----

    mannerly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • polite, having good manners
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly .
  • * 1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
    • ...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.

    Derived terms

    * mannerliness