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Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

rvile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

ment be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

sire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. Pope.

Courtship; gallantry; love; an object of love. [Obs.] Chaucer.

g married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

ther they bent, and hauled their ships to land. Pope. Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

Love; gallantry. [Obs.] "For paramour and jollity." Chaucer.

Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness. Chaucer. Sir P. Sidney. He by his prowess conquered all France. Shak.

xote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. "Feats of quixotic gallantry." Prescott.

Violent; rough; rude. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

and the like. "Romances that been royal." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances. These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, and chiefly…

Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

al entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.

as a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. "A strain of gallantry." Sir W. Scott. Such take too high a strain at first. Bacon. The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. Tillotson. It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains…