gallant

  1. Adjective.  brave, valiant.
  2. Adjective.  honourable.
  3. Adjective.  grand, noble.
  4. Adjective.  Very polite with women.
  5. Noun.  (dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
  6. Noun.  one who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
  7. Noun.  (nautical) variant of topgallant.

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