gallantry
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Roberts-Smith won the Victoria Cross -- Australia's highest military honour -- for "conspicuous gallantry" in Afghanistan while on the hunt for a senior Taliban commander.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Place this alongside Horace in one of his “Epistles”: “The advancing years rob us of every thing: they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
She is one of 20 recipients of the civilian gallantry awards, and one of four awarded it posthumously.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
In France she met and married another exile, Bronislav Sossinsky, who had won the highest medal for gallantry in the White Army that fought against the Bolsheviks in Russia's Civil war.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
About a month later, the members of the 125th were honored again for their determined gallantry: they were renamed the 125th M. M. Raskova Borisov Guards.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
There are sad-eyed little gallantries instead; and even when Saroyan half-mocks at stage doings, he seems half-mawkish.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eyes fixed straight ahead, she pretended to ignore the gallantries, but a couple of times her lips curled into a smile.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing gallantry
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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