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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance. historical
2. 2
   Alternative form of galant. alt-of, alternative
3. 3
   Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

Etymology

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

Related phrases

baroque periodclassical period

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