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galant

galant adjective: of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.

Adjective (1)

galant

  1. (historical) Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
  2. Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Galant

Galant

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of galant.

Origin of galant

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

Words formed from galant

Questions about galant

What does galant mean?
Galant means of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
What part of speech is galant?
Galant is an adjective.

Words near galant in the dictionary

  1. Galanis
  2. Galanises
  3. Galano
  4. Galanos
  5. Galans
  6. galant
  7. Galanta
  8. galantamine
  9. galantaminium
  10. galantaminiums
  11. Galante

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