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
He made his mark as a gamecock, gallant soldier.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Bell’s course in Batangas was commended in the annual report of his immediate superior, a very humane, as well as gallant, soldier, General Wheaton, as “a model in suppressing insurrections under like circumstances.”
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
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