Usually means: Energetic Renaissance dance in triple time.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word galliard:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. galliard: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. galliard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. galliard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. galliard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Galliard, galliard: Wordnik
  6. galliard: Wiktionary
  7. galliard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. galliard: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. galliard: Dictionary.com
  10. Galliard (disambiguation), Galliard (horse), Galliard (typeface), Galliard (typography), Galliard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Galliard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. galliard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Galliard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. galliard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. galliard: Free Dictionary
  16. galliard: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. galliard: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. galliard: The Folk File

Definitions from Wiktionary (galliard)

noun:  A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
noun:  (music) The triple-time music for this dance.
noun:  (dated) A brisk, merry person.
noun:  (uncountable, Continental printing, dated) An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).
adjective:  (dated) Gay; brisk; active.

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