gailliarde

Noun

galliard (countable and uncountable, plural galliards)

1. A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
   • […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33
2. The triple-time music for this dance.
3. (dated) A brisk, merry person.
   • Thus every Gibelline hath got his Guelf ;
     But Selden he's a Galliard by himself ;
     And well may be ; there's more Divines in him ,
     Than in all this their Jewish Sanhedrim ;1647, John Cleveland, “The Mixt Assembly”, in The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems, page 36 1647, keyboarded 1687, scanned
4. (dated, uncountable, Continental printing) An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).

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