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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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
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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