gallant soldier

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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of gallant soldier¹

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.”

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These are people who spent every waking minute knowing they weren't included in high white society and they thought probably for a minute that if they could go and be a faithful gallant soldier, maybe they would be rewarded with some type of honor.

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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.

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

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

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