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gallantry show en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete) Alternative form of galanty show.
   alt of galanty show
   • Children of to-day, with their cinemas and comic journals and their plethora of elaborate and refined picture-books, automatic machines, etc., would find, I fear, but little use for the Raree-show, or, as it was also called, Peep-show or Gallantry-show. 1924, Alfred Rosling Bennett, London and Londoners in the Eighteen-fifties and Sixties, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 60:
   • Private Dormer popped his head out of his blanket and gazed at the glory below and around. “Well — damn — my eyes” said Private Dormer, in an awed whisper. “This ’ere is like a bloomin’ gallantry-show!” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 142:

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