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gallanting

gallanting is the present participle and gerund 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 gallanting

What is gallanting the present participle and gerund of?
Gallanting is the present participle and gerund of gallant.

Words near gallanting in the dictionary

  1. gallant soldiers
  2. gallanted
  3. gallanter
  4. gallantest
  5. gallanthood
  6. gallanting
  7. gallantise
  8. gallantised
  9. gallantises
  10. gallantising
  11. gallantize

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