galliardise arch.
(ˈgælɪəˌdaɪz)
Also 6 ? galiardise, 7 galliardize, gagliardise, 9 gaillardise.
[ad. F. gaillardise, f. gaillard galliard n.]
Gaiety, mirth, revelry. Also, a merry trick.
| c 1570 Pride & Lowl. (1841) 58 A man..Whose trade is galiaudise [? read galiardise], drinke, and disport. 1619 T. Milles tr. Mexia's Treas. Anc. & Mod. Times II. x. xiii. 962/1 Landgartha..obseruing some rare galliardise, euen in the gracefull lookes of her female followers. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §11, I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxx, ‘How stands it with the bona robas and the galliards?’ ‘Little galliardise stirring, my lord.’ 1842 L. Hunt Palfrey v. 129 This were a crowning galliardise For king himself to tell in hall. 1893 Harper's Mag. Feb. 394 Your life is one long gaillardise. |
Hence † ˈgalliarˌdizing ppl. a., tending to revelry; enlivening, exciting to levity.
| 1697 Collier Immor. Stage vi. (1730) 182 The Tunes are generally airy and gailliardizing. 1703 ― Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. 25 One word of Church Musick..There must be..no light and galliardizing notes. |