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Gaillard vs Galliard - What's the difference?

gaillard | galliard | Alternative forms |

Gaillard is an alternative form of galliard.


As adjectives the difference between gaillard and galliard

is that gaillard is strong; sprightly, lively (of person) while galliard is gay; brisk; active.

As nouns the difference between gaillard and galliard

is that gaillard is forecastle, fo'c's'le while galliard is a lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century europe.

gaillard

Not English

Gaillard has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'gaillard':

gloried, glowered, goalward, galliard, galleried, glaired, gloured, gloared, gaolward, gaolyard

galliard

English

Alternative forms

* gaillard

Noun

(wikipedia galliard) (en noun)
  • A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe
  • (music) The triple-time music for this dance
  • (dated) A brisk, merry person.
  • * {{cite-book
    • , author=(John Cleveland), "The Mixt Assembly" , title=The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems , year=1647 , page=36 1647, keyboarded] [http://books.google.com/books?id=NL0JYdTQLVUC&pg=PA35
  • v=onepage&f=false 1687, scanned
    • , text=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     ;}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1828 , title=(The Fair Maid of Perth) , author= , passage=I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest. citation }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , author=(Saul Bellow) , title=(The Adventures of Augie March) , chapter=5 , year=1953 , text=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.}}

    See also

    * (dance)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gay; brisk; active