What is "galliard"

Usage examples of "galliard".

There was a light tent--only one, for the Hares would fend for themselves at the up-river camp, and Lew and Galliard were no doubt already well provided.

They had treated the Hares with friendliness, but had been as aloof from them and their like as Leithen and Galliard.

Stately pavanes gave way to the galliard and the antic hey, and the musicians played in a frenzy, faces shining with sweat.

This set the Hares mooning in their shacks awaiting death, and it held Galliard, a man of education and high ability, in the same blind, unreasoning bondage.

Once I had Garford, the neurologist, staying with me and the Galliards came to dinner.

Dancing was the daily occupation rather than the amusement at court and elsewhere, and the names of dances exceeded the list of the virtues--such as the French brawl, the pavon, the measure, the canary, and many under the general titles of corantees, jigs, galliards, and fancies.

Galliard, still in a coma, was lifted and partly unclothed, and his damaged leg was washed and rebandaged by Johnny with the neatness of a hospital nurse.

Galliard had seemed the sanest of men, all the saner because he had divested himself of his urban trappings and had yet kept the accent of civilisation.

They dance pavanes, galliards, corantos, branles, contredans, and so forth.

At one side he was flanked by Galliard, Master at Aerial Navigation, and on the other by his valet.

I don't know who found the outfits for the village musicians, but they were certainly clad for a grand occasion and seemed indefatigable in their energetic playing of old galliards, gavottes, reels, set dances and minuets.

It was only during the last strain of the galliard that she spun violently away from him into a jagged, blazing scurry of half-steps that carried her as far as the dais—himself three floundering beats behind her—then wheeling back to end with a high jump like a cry of rage, and a reverence so dazzlingly scornful that Farrell stood flat-footed, feeling as if every woman he had ever known, beginning with his mother, were laughing at him in the curve of her arm.

In an orchestra in the largest room, musicians were placed, and here brawls, galliards, lavoltas, passameasures, pavans, sauteuses, cushion-dances, and kissing-dances were performed by the company.

Farrell retuned the lute and struck into the Le Roy galliard that was her current favorite.