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† stoop-gallant, n.
[f. stoop v.1 + gallant n. = F. trousse-galant, recorded a 1590 in Paré Œuvres xxii. v. (1641) 530.
The Fr. equivalent is an objective compound of the vb.-stem; it is uncertain whether the Eng. word is a compound of the same type, or a phrase with the verb in the imperative and the n. used vocatively. Cf. the following quot.
1551Loughborough Register in J. Nichols Hist. Leicester (1804) III. ii. 891/2 The Swat, called New Acquaintance, alias Stoupe, Knave, and know thy Master.]
Something that humbles ‘gallants’; originally, a name for the ‘sweating sickness’; later used gen. Also attrib. or adj.
1551in Gentl. Mag. (1808) LXXVIII. ii. 1057 The hote Sickness, called Stup-gallant. a1560T. Hancock in Narr. Reform. (Camden) 82 The posting swet, that posted from towne to towne, throwghe England, and was named stope gallant, for hytt spared none, for ther were dawncyng in the cowrte at 9 a'clocke thatt were deadd or aleven a'clocke. a1571Bp. J. Leslie Hist. Scot. (Bannatyne Club) 81 Thair wes ane seknes universallie in the moneth of September [1510] in Scotland,..it wes callit be the peple stoup galland. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 90 Youngth is a bubble..Whose way is wildernesse, whose ynne Penaunce, And stoopegallaunt Age the hoste of Greeuaunce. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus K ij, Old cramped sires in their stoupe gallant age. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. 1910 III. 114 Comedie vpon Comedie he shall haue... One shal bee called..Stoope Gallant, or The Fall of pride. 1862F. C. L. Wraxall tr. Hugo's Les Misérables III. lxvii. 332 Your stoop-gallant is called cholera.
¶ Used allusively as verbal phrase.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Surrey (1662) 84 His Lordship..enforced them to stoop gallant, and to vail their Bonnets for the Queen of England. |