gallant soldier
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of gallant soldier
C20: by folk etymology from New Latin Galinsoga
Example Sentences
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“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 ● May 20, 2022
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 ● Jul. 3, 2015
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 ● Mar. 26, 2013
In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner of 202,000 Scottish acres.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had brought tears to the eyes of the gallant soldier, and given to his features such dangerous softness, that the poor minstrel had never recovered the effects of it.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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