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They ennobled their race by their gallantry on that desperate occasion.

Her grandfather was decorated for gallantry at Vimy Ridge and went on to found the Canadian armored corps.

Felix is a good man, but his instincts toward decency— an act of gallantry on the Tube—eventually prove fatal for him.

This gallantry surprised her ever so little, for a faint flush came into her cheek and the shadow of a smile into her eyes.

Gallantry is a weakness of the heart, or perhaps a constitutional defect; coquetry is an irregularity of the mind.

In the age wherein those poets lived, there was less of gallantry than in ours; neither did they keep the best company of theirs.

What with De Valmont's hollow gallantry and boasting of his own great deeds, he fell daily in the daughter's eyes.

Monsieur Guillot was indeed a man of gallantry, but he had the reputation of using these affairs to cloak his real purpose.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gallantry, such as: boldness, courage, valor, address, attentiveness, and audacity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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