galliard
Americannoun
noun
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a spirited dance in triple time for two persons, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
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a piece of music composed for this dance
adjective
Etymology
Origin of galliard
1525–35; < Middle French gaillard, noun use of adj.: lively, vigorous (> Middle English gaillard, late Middle English galyarde ), probably < Gallo-Romance *galia < Celtic (compare MIr gal warlike ardor, valor); see -ard
Example Sentences
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A fantasia and a pavan and galliard by William Byrd were riveting.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2017
The English ever loved her best, and the quick-paced galliard took their fancy, too.
From Master Skylark by John Bennett
He whistling like a galliard, after a parting which had dissatisfied me to such an extent that I had come all this distance to ask his pardon and see his old smile again!
From Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green
Mystres, will it please you to daunce a galliard with me? pray you therefore.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
Go to, play a galliard vpon the violl.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
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