What is "galliards"

Usage examples of "galliards".

He felt that between the Galliards and the friendly eupeptic people he had been meeting there was a difference, not of degree, but of kind.

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.