galliard

1. (music) The triple-time music for this dance.countableuncountable

2. (dated) A brisk, merry person.Examples: "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 ;"; "I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest."; "He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes."countabledateduncountable

3. (uncountable, Continental printing, dated) An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).dateduncountable