gallant soldier

British  

noun

1. Also called: Joey Hooker.  a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)

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Etymology

Origin of gallant soldier

C20: by folk etymology from New Latin Galinsoga

Example Sentences

“Those generations will know Lieutenant Warren as a son of Crown Heights, a gallant soldier and as the best that our nation can offer.”

From New York Times

To set forth the particulars of his conduct would be tedious, we would only beg leave to say that in the Person of this said negro centers a brave and gallant soldier.

From Washington Post

Unable to live up to his romantic ideal of the gallant soldier, he was left to imagine such a soldier in his fiction.

From Slate

‘A gallant soldier,’ he said, ‘a veteran of the Crimea.’

From Project Gutenberg

Nor must it be imagined that his sage reflections, in regard to keeping himself out of danger, had at all made a coward of the gallant soldier.

From Project Gutenberg