Gallantize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To woo or flirt with. obsolete

    "[…] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate."

  2. 2
    To socialize in a fashionable manner. obsolete

    "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."

Example

More examples

"[…] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate."

Etymology

From gallant + -ize.

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