Gallants

Word GALLANTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Gallants"

What do we mean by gallants?

A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.

One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.

Topgallant

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The word "gallants" in example sentences

Are the audience of a play-house, which are generally persons of honour, noblemen, and ladies, or, at worst, as one of your authors calls his gallants, men of wit and pleasure about the town [20], -- are these the rabble of Mr Hunt? ❋ John Dryden (1665)

The settlers of 1607, 1608 and 1609 were almost entirely swept out of existence, and not one in fifty of these "gallants" survived to found families. ❋ Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (1922)

Her fore and main tops'ls and to'gallants'ls were set, as also were her lower stays'ls and royals. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

Well, going to sea, the mate told him to go aloft and help shake out the foreto'gallants'l. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

He smiles graciously when we meet, but with all we hear about the wickedness of the French, Grammont has shown me greater respect than I have had from any one of the so-called gallants about the court. " ❋ Charles Major (1884)

"gallants" of the reign of Charles were now a past generation. ❋ Various (N/A)

"gallants" who roamed about the land in those days, the fair prisoners must have had a dismal time while incarcerated in these dungeon-like apartments. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)

One anchor lifted, t'other chain shortened in, tops'ls and t'gallants'ls cast off, ready to cant her at the right moment -- " ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

"The Yankee takes a good long look at her, or at least at her to'gallants'ls, which was all we could see, and then tells us he'd made up his mind to have a slap at the chap during the night. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

"Ay, I'm no sayin 'ye may no be richt, sir," answered the first lieutenant; "but it'll be an unco strain upon the spars to set thae to'gallants'ls; our new rigging has stretched until it's all hangin 'in bights, as ye may see for yoursel' by lookin 'at it. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Still, it may be worth the tryin ': but will ye no see what we can do under whole topsails before settin' the to'gallants'ls? " ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Rose says the young gallants are calling it the “Bedchamber Crisis.” ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed all-male coffee houses were responsible for "a very sensible Decay of that Old English Vigour . . ." by promoting "the excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish liquor called Coffee, which . . . has so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints . . ." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet such legal deterrents had done little to discourage reckless gallants bent on settling disputes of honor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My promise: None of these falls into the category of historical fiction George Steiner once described as "improbable gallants pursuing terrified yet rather lightly clad young ladies across flamboyant dust-wrappers." ❋ Cynthia Crossen (2010)

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