gallantize

Verb

gallantize (third-person singular simple present gallantizes, present participle gallantizing, simple past and past participle gallantized)

1. (obsolete) To woo or flirt with.
   • […] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.1728, Joseph Morgan, The History of Algiers
   • One day I took a solitary ride there, while Oliver was gallantizing the ladies, a vocation for which his invincible good humour and unfailing vivacity, eminently qualify him.1835, James Kirke Paulding, Paulding's Works: Letters from the South, by a Northern man, page 174
2. (obsolete) To socialize in a fashionable manner.
   • Some of the principall Officers, presuming by this small beginning that all was theirs returned to Paris, gallantized it in the City, tooke their pleasure, considered not that their Lords lay in Tents, and betook them to their beds of ease, to the danger, not ruine of his Majesties affairs, whose...1637, The Principall Passages of Germany, Italy, France, and Other Places
   • which swaggering down to the lowermost bottom of the breeches, cannot abide (for being quite out of all order and method) the stately fashion of the high and lofty cod-piece; as is manifest, by the Noble Valentin Viardiere, whom I found at Nancie, on the first Day of May (the more flauntingly to...1738, François Rabelais, The Works of Francis Rabelais, page 256