1) Baroque music 2) Renaissance dance
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[typeface] Galliard is the name of a serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter and issued in 1978 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Galliard is based on the sixteenth-century type of Robert Granjon. According to Alexander Lawson, `The name Galliard stems from Granjon`s own term for an 8-point font he cut about 1570. It undoubtedly refer...
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brisk; gallant; lively
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sprightly Renaissance and Baroque dance
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• (a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde. • (a.) Gay; brisk; active. • (n.) A brisk, gay man.
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(French gaillard: `lively`), vigorous 16th-century European court dance. Its four hopping steps and one high leap permitted athletic gentlemen to ... [3 related articles]
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Gal'liard adjective [ Middle English , from French
gaillard , perhaps of Celtic origin; confer Ir. & Gael.
galach valiant, or Anglo-Saxon
gagol ,
geagl , wanton, lascivious.] Gay; brisk; active. [ Obsolete]
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Gal'liard noun A brisk, gay man. [ Obsolete] « Selden is a
galliard by himself.»
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The galliard was a spirited dance in triple time for two persons, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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quick and lively, also the name of a dance done in triple time
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Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
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a lively court dance of Italian origin, usually in triple time.
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