Gallant vs Highspirited - What's the difference?
gallant | highspirited | Synonyms |
Brave, valiant.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Honorable.
*
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.
Gallant is a synonym of highspirited.
gallant
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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