French

Adjective

gaillarde

1. feminine singular of gaillard

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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