gallous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He was a "gallous chap" in his youth, so said my grandmother, with a great love of good clothes and gunpowder.
From D'Ri and I by Bacheller, Irving
Ah, you'll have a gallous jaunt I'm saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father's ghost.
From The Playboy of the Western World by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)
He used to know you when he was in service at the H——s, and speaks of you as being then "a gallous young hound," whatever that may mean.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth—Crossjay, for instance:—there!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
I imagine "gallous" to be a rustic Lewis Carroll compound, made up in equal parts of callousness and gallantry, which most boys are, at some stage of their existence.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
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