Dictionary entry

Gallant (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gal‐lant″ (?; 277), n. 1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.

2. One fond of paying attention to ladies.

3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.

☞ In the first sense it is by some orthoëpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.