Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Courage.

    Tapferkeit

    хра́бростьxrábrostʹ, отва́гаotvága, сме́лостьsmélostʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)Chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women.

    гала́нтностьgalántnostʹ

    courtesy towards women

  3. (countable, uncountable)An instance of gallant behaviour or speech.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Marital gallantry is a special art.

    ruСупружеская галантность — это особое искусство.

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  2. Isn't French gallantry one of the most disgusting hidden forms of misogyny?

    ruФранцузская галантность — не одна ли из самых гнусно прикрытых форм женоненавистничества?

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  3. Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second's reign.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
courage especially in battle:
chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
courage especially in battle:

Origin

From French galanterie, equivalent to gallant + -ry.

From French galanterie, equivalent to gallant + -ry.

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Forms

plural: gallantries
Singulargallantry
Pluralgallantries

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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