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gallantry

[gal-uhn-tree] / ˈgæl ən tri /


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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

Courage faces danger but gallantry is the way you face it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 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

As she staggered with the bus’s movement my lack of gallantry tormented me.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

But Bausch expands her premise to embrace a world of ritualised gallantries and perfectly achieved appearance.

From The Guardian Jun. 21, 2012

In A Free Soul he was the gangster whose rude but persuasive gallantries caused Norma Shearer to violate the Producer's Code.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Many war pictures have dwelt, for purposes of irony, on the small gallantries of modern armed conflict.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emerging from behind the garbage can, he found her beautiful, his French blood flared up, and he proceeded to gallantries unmistakable even to the slack eyes of mademoiselle’s mistress.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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