gallantiseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

gallantise (三人称単数 現在形 gallantises, 現在分詞 gallantising, 過去形および過去分詞形 gallantised)

1. Alternative form of gallantize
   • 1756, John Kelly, The Peruvian Tales:

     It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;

   • 1882, W.B. Guinee, “Talbot's Folly”, in Tinsley's Magazine, volume 30, page 260:

     What were the squabbles of that gate-porter and his wife to the disputes which ensued when Mr. Bull, after flirting his full with Miss India, after diverting himself with Miss Australia, after gallantising it with Miss Canada, and other members of his extensive seraglio, came home, and, hanging his fiddle behind the door, proceeded to exercise his marital privileges by loading her that was nearest, and should be dearest, to him with chains, lashing her with scorpions, and behaving with the cruelty of a stepfather to her beloved and patriotic offspring?