galliard

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

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

词形变化

galliards plural gaillard alternative more galliard comparative most galliard superlative gaillard alternative
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