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Word: galliard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Plucker With Pluck | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

...fervor. Susan Shentall, while reading hers without distinction, nevertheless has what is so rare and so right in a Juliet: a delicate haze of sensuality that clouds the clear child face with passion's promises. The scene in which Romeo and Juliet meet, in which she foots the galliard, and the two touch trembling hands in the dainty ballad of the masks, is a passage paced to the heartbeat of first love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: IN FAIR VERONA | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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