galant

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adjective

Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.

OriginFrench galant →
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Meanings

galant1

adjective
  1. historicalartOf or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
  2. entertainmentOf or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

Galant2

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of galant.

Origin

  1. Frenchgalant
  2. Frenchgalant
  3. Englishgalant

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

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Cite this entry
APA

galant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/galant

MLA

“galant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/galant. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “galant,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/galant.

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