Gallantize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Gallantize is a verb meaning (obsolete) To woo or flirt with.
Meaning
(obsolete) To woo or flirt with.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) To socialize in a fashionable manner.
Example Sentences
[…] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.
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;
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.
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.
Word Forms
- gallantizes
- gallantizing
- gallantized
- gallantise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gallivant, spark, word, womanize, coquet, glaver.
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