galliard

Etymology

noun

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.
   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 ; 1647, John Cleveland, “The Mixt Assembly”, in The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems, page 36 1647, keyboarded 1687, scanned
   I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest. 1828, Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth
4. (uncountable, Continental printing, dated) An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).

adj

1. (dated) Gay; brisk; active.