galliard
noun
a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
gaillard
-
a variation of
galliard.
Example Sentences
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King Edward VII was sympathique and un gaillard; the Princes of Wales, who may one day be Edward VIII, is also sympathique.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think the restaurant we dined in was the only one in the place, and our gaillard of a host—he was a straight-backed, well-set-up chap, with rather fine eyes—did us on the whole pretty well.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
He is what they call here un fort gaillard.'
From The Red Cross Barge by Marie Belloc Lowndes
How brave gaillard was Renoir, and how well he painted from that subfusc palette!...
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
"Ventre bleu!" roared he, while he stamped his foot upon the ground, "ce gaillard se moque de nous."
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
