gallantry
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It is alive, it exists, you know people who are gallant, have witnessed gallantry and understand at this point that it is deeply countercultural.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
For his actions in fierce fighting over several days in September 2006 he was awarded the Military Cross - the third-highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024
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
The Federal Court confirmed that the 44-year-old recipient of the revered Victorian Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan filed an appeal with the court on Tuesday against that ruling.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
I take this opportunity to congratulate officers and men of our armed forces for their gallantry and bravery, which have earned for them the admiration of the whole world.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries.
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing gallantry
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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