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Galliard

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Gay; brisk; active. dated
Noun
  1. 1
    A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    The triple-time music for this dance. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A brisk, merry person. countable, dated, uncountable

    "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 ;"

  4. 4
    An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size). dated, uncountable

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