Galant. This word come from gal , which first meant gaiety and celebration , as one sees in Alain Chartier and in Froissart: One even finds galandé in the Roman de la Rose to mean ornamented, decorated .

The beauty was adorned with a gold-decorated string necklace .

The Italian gala and Spanish galan were probably derived from the word gal , whose origin appears from the Celtic; hence, galant was gradually formed, which means a man who is eager to please : this word gained a more noble meaning in the time of chivalry, when this desire to please was distinguished by combat. To act gallantly , to get out of a situation gallantly still means to act as a man of heart . A gallant man , for the English, means a man of courage : In France, it means more, a man of noble behavior . A gallant man is different from a man of gallantry; the latter involves the honest man, the former relates more to the little master, the man chasing fortune. In general, to be gallant is to look for how to please with pleasant care and flattering enthusiasm. See Gallantry. He was very gallant with the those ladies merely means he showed something even more than just politeness ; but being a lady’s gallant has a stronger meaning; that means being her lover ; this word is almost no longer used today except colloquially. A gallant is not only a man chasing fortune; but this word brings with it the idea of boldness and even effrontery: that is the meaning as La Fontaine used it.

But a man on the make . Thus, the same word is used in several meanings. So is gallantry , which sometimes means coquetry in wit, flattery words, and at other times appears as little jewels or intrigue with one or several women; and even recently it has been meant ironically as the favors of Venus ; hence, to say with gallantry, to give gallantries, to have gallantries, to catch a gallantry are all different things. Nearly all the terms that frequently come into the language have many nuances that are difficult to parse: the technical words have a more precise and less arbitrary meaning.