Usually means: Courteous behavior, especially towards women.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. gallanting: Merriam-Webster
  2. gallanting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gallanting: Wordnik
  4. gallanting: Wiktionary
  5. Gallanting, gallanting: Dictionary.com
  6. Gallanting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Gallanting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. gallanting: FreeDictionary.org
  9. gallanting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gallanting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See gallant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gallant)

adjective:  Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
adjective:  honorable.
adjective:  grand, noble.
adjective:  (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
adjective:  Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
noun:  (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
noun:  One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
noun:  (nautical) A topgallant.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
verb:  (transitive) To conduct, escort, convey.
verb:  To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Etowah County and St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, named after a pioneer settler.
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