gallant
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They have shot, fished, golfed and gallanted together.
From Time Magazine Archive
His left arm was gallanted in a sling, and there was a patch upon his sinister eye.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
I wouldn't been so late even fu' dat, but Mistah Hi'am Smif, he gallanted me home an' you know a lady boun' to stan' at de gate an' talk to huh comp'ny a little while.
From The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
No, but it will not, to my knowledge: I have tried every bar many a fair time over; and at last have found out one, where a hand may get through, and be gallanted.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"What!" cries he, looking up, "are there indeede Hamadryads?" and would have gallanted a little, but I bade him hold down his head, while that with a twig I switched off ye caterpillar.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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