Dictionary

galliard en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (dated) Gay; brisk; active.

Forms

Deriveds

galliardness · galliardly

Relateds

tordion

galliard en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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 dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
2. (countable, uncountable) The triple-time music for this dance.
3. (countable, dated, uncountable) 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:
   • I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest. 1828, Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth:
   • He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes. 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
4. (dated, qualifier:Continental printing, uncountable) An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).

Forms

Translations (1)

es gallarda (8-point type)