What does gallantize mean?
Gallantize means (obsolete) To woo or flirt with..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete) To woo or flirt with..
[…] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.
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.
In my days of celibacy, there was a gal at Saratoga whom I gallantized, and whom, while I was at Saratoga, I thought Heaven had made to be Mrs. Morley;
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 wakefull eye attending his own, and his peoples welfare, saw what might ensue upon their supine negligence, and salved all againe by an Edict which like a mundifying unguent, cleansing the ulcer, restrained their luxurie, the purport whereof is as followesth.
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 gallantize it afterwards) rubbing his Ballocks, spread out upon a Table after the Manner of a Spanish Cloak.
They have waxed to be most flagrant, outrageous, and abandoned dancers ; they do ponder on noughte but how to gallantize it at balls, routs, and fandangos, insomuch that the like was in no time or place ever observed before.
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Gallantize means (obsolete) To woo or flirt with..
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[…] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.
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