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gallanted

gallanted is the simple past and past participle of gallant.

Meaning of gallant

Verb

gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
    • to gallant ladies to the play
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
    • to gallant a fan
  3. (transitive) To conduct, escort, convey.
    • ... and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors.1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  4. To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
    • How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]1840 February 7, The Sydney Herald, page 2, column 5

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Questions about gallanted

What is gallanted the simple past and past participle of?
Gallanted is the simple past and past participle of gallant.

Words near gallanted in the dictionary

  1. gallanilide
  2. gallanilides
  3. gallant
  4. gallant soldier
  5. gallant soldiers
  6. gallanted
  7. gallanter
  8. gallantest
  9. gallanthood
  10. gallanting
  11. gallantise

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