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Gallant

Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

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Brave 84% connected

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

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Brave 84% connected

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

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Courageous 84% connected

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

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Courageous 84% connected

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

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Courteous 84% connected

Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

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Courteous 84% connected

Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

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Impressive 84% connected

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect th…

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Impressive 84% connected

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect th…

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Spirited 84% connected

of Spirit

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Spirited 84% connected

of Spirit

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Broader term 4

Attendant 76% connected

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

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Attender 76% connected

One who, or that which, attends.

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Narrower term 3

Cockscomb 76% connected

See Coxcomb.

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Coxcomb 76% connected

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

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Macaroni 76% connected

Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

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Derivationally related 2

Squire 74% connected

A square; a measure; a rule.

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Squire 74% connected

A square; a measure; a rule.

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Synonym 14

Beau 92% connected

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Chivalrous 92% connected

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Clotheshorse 92% connected

A frame to hang clothes on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dandy 92% connected

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

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Dashing 92% connected

of Dash

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Dude 92% connected

A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.

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Fop 92% connected

One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

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Knightly 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lofty 92% connected

Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Majestic 92% connected

Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Proud 92% connected

Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sheik 92% connected

The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiast…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squire 92% connected

A square; a measure; a rule.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swell 92% connected

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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