galant

British  

/ ɡəˈlɑːnt /

noun

1. an 18th-century style of music characterized by homophony and elaborate ornamentation

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Etymology

Origin of galant

C17: from Old French galant, from galer to make merry, from gale enjoyment, pleasure

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Example Sentences

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galant

Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia probably make these galant symphonies sound weightier than Mozart intended, but theirs is an impeccable performance: every strand of melody is spun out and polished to a high luster.

From Time Magazine Archive

He’s a très galant homme of absolute probity, even with himself. 

From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad

We have still: ‘Morisco gowns, Barbarian sleeves, Polonian shoes, with divers far fetcht trifles; Such as the wandering English galant rifles Strange countries for.’

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

I found then that he was not the galant homme I had thought him, but something quite different.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer

As such he would have suited the people of England; but it was un vert galant like Henri IV., or royalty incarnate, like Louis XIV., who would have fired the imagination of the French people.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer

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