Galliardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

galliard (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 galliards)

1. A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
2. (music) The triple-time music for this dance.
3. (dated) A brisk, merry person.
   • 1647, John Cleveland, “The Mixt Assembly”, in The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems, page 36 1647, keyboarded 1687, scanned:

     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 ;

   • 1828, Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth‎^[1]:

     I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest.

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, OCLC 279587:

     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.

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