"Gallant" is a word in ENGLISH
One fond of paying attention to ladies.
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a
seducer.
To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to
gallant a fan.
A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young
blood.
To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies
to the play.
Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women;
chivalrous.
Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited;
courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant
officer.
High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules. We great unwashed of the outer world, on the coasts of new continents, though we might ourselves have behaved atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned to the frenzies of racial myth. Nice boys and not-so-nice boys took up the theme, put on the uniform, did the dirty work.
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