| 释义 |
† lusty gallant Obs.
1. The name of a dance; also of a dance-tune.
1569Elderton in Collect. B.L. Ball. & Broadsides (1867) 14 A proper new Ballad in praise of my Ladie Marques, whose Death is bewailed to the Tune of New lusty gallant. 1577Breton Wks. Yng. Wit (Chappell Mus. Old T. I. 91), The youth must needs go dance, First galliards—then larousse, and heidegy—Old Lusty Gallant—All flowers of the broom. 1578Proctor Gorg. Gallery D b, A propper Dittie. To the tune of lusty Gallant. 1594Nashe Terrors Nt. Wks. (Grosart) III. 271 After all they danst Lustie gallant, & a drunken Danish Laualto or two.
2. A fanciful name for some tint of light red.
1587Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. vii. 172 in Holinshed, I might here name a sort of hewes deuised for the nonce, wherewith to please phantasticall heads, as a gooseturd greene..popingaie blue, lustie gallant. 1589Rider Bibl. Schol. 1709 Lusty gallant colour or light red, spadiceus. 1601Holland Pliny II. 110 The French vse therewith [the hyacinth] to die their light reds or lustie-gallant. |