gaillarde

gaillarde (plural gaillardes)

1. Alternative form of galliard (dance)
   • 2005, Kate van Orden, Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France:

     At its most elemental, the gaillarde consisted of four steps or hops (pieds en l'air or grèves), a jump (saut), and a pose (posture), for which the combination was known as the cinq pas or "five steps."

   • 2005, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, editor, The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-century Stage:

     The connection of these three examples of the gaillarde step is unmistakeable. Magri says that it is one of the steps — along with jeté, chassé, and glissade — used "by all three kinds of Ballerini: Seri, mezzo Carattere and Grottesco" when two dancers dance in a Carè or square formation.

   • 2006, Louis Andriessen, Elmer Schönberger, The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky:

     Arbeau gives a lengthy description of the gaillarde, the second dance of the First Pas-de-Trois from Agon.

gaillarde

1. feminine singular of gaillard

gaillarde f (uncountable)

1. (printing, dated) Galliard: the size of type between petit-texte and petit-romain, standardized as 9 Fournier points (3.06 mm) then as 8 Didot points (3.00 or 3.01 mm).
2. The galliard, a 16th-century European dance.

• (type size): (Dutch) galjard, (English) galliard, (Italian) gagliarda, (Spanish) gallarda