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Gallant

1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.

2. One fond of paying attention to ladies.

3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.

in the first sense it is by some orthoepists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.