galliard
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- The triple-time music for this dance.
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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 ;
- An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).
形容词 adj.
- Gay; brisk; active.
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