Definition of Galant

1. Proper noun. (music) a musical stylistic term principally occurring during the transition from the Baroque period Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, which showed more classically simplistic trait traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period. ¹

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Definition of Galant

1. musical style [adj]

Medical Definition of Galant

1. Nikolay Fedorovich, Russian hygienist, *1893. See: Galant's reflex. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galant

Gaius Flaminius
Gaius Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Gaius Octavianus
Gaius Petronius
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Gaius Plinius Secundus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gal
Gal.
GalNAc beta1-4 GlcNAc-R beta1-3-galactosyltransferase
Gala
Galahad
Galalith
Galan
Galant (current term)
Galant's reflex
Galapagos
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos penguin
Galapagos penguins
Galashiels
Galatea
Galatia
Galatian
Galatians
Galatic
Galax urceolata
Galaxia

Literary usage of Galant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... I believe she would not covet such a superannuated galant; but you will not expose our curtain-douceurs! At noon. I have had no letters to-day, ..."

2. Novels by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1906)
"... he imagined that she had ' une attaque de nerfs,' and therefore deemed it his duty, the duty dun galant chevalier, to go to her assistance. ..."

3. La Société Française Au Dix-septième Siècle: An Account of French Society in by Thomas Frederick Crane (1889)
"154, dévotes an entire conversation to JDe l'Air galant (it appeared ... 252) from which thé following is taken : " Mais selon moi l'air galant de la ..."

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