| 单词 | gallant it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gallant it 1. intransitive. To play the gallant or dandy, to ‘cut a dash’. Also to gallant it. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > play the dandy gallant1608 dandyize1830 dandy-jack1887 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight i. sig. B3v Be patient wench, and thou shalt shortly see me gallant it with the best. 1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 74 As Papal Zouave, he embarked for Rome to gallant in voluminous trousers on four sous a day. to gallant it a. intransitive. To play the gallant, flirt, dally with. Also to gallant it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] flicker?c1225 dallyc1440 mird?c1625 pickeer1646 to dally away1685 niggle1696 coquet1700 gallant1744 philander1778 flirt1781 fike1804 gallivant1823 butterfly1893 vamp1904 romance1907 to fool up1933 floss1938 cop1940 horse1953 1744 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) I. 97 She..gallants it with every pretty fellow she comes in company with. 1749 D. Garrick Lethe i, in Wks. (1798) I. 17 I'll lay six to four that he has been gallanting with some of the beauties of antiquity. 1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring viii, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 195 Captain Jemmison went on shore..and spent his time in great dissipation..eating, dressing, dancing, gallanting. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 71 Now we are in Horace Walpole's time, and the macaroni-cynic of Strawberry Hill is gallanting in the Mall with Lady Caroline Petersham. 1888 Snodgrass Heine's Wit, etc. (ed. 2) 208 Nor..did he gallant with the crowned relatives of the Cæsars. < as lemmas |
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