† lusty gallantn.
Obsolete.
1. The name of a dance; also of a dance-tune.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > specific dance tunes
Sellenger's round1567
lusty gallant1569
cogs and rungs1621
Bobbing Joan1756
1569 in Coll. Black-letter Ballads & Broadsides (1867) 14 A proper new Ballad in praise of my Ladie Marques, whose Death is bewailed to the Tune of New lusty gallant.
1577 N. Breton Wks. Young Wyt f.30 The youth must needes goe daunce, First Galiardes, then Larous, and Heidegy, Old lustie gallant, all floures of the broome.
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery D b A propper Dittie. To the tune of lusty Gallant.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in 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.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > bright red or scarlet
cockea1382
coccyn1382
coctin1382
vermiliona1400
scarlet-redc1405
sinoper1412
scarletc1440
sinople?c1450
vermeletc1530
lusty gallant1587
vermeil1590
vermeil red1590
minium1601
cinnabar?1614
cochineal1632
poppy red1679
poppy colour1705
cherry-colour1720
ponceau1782
Turkey red1789
pinkc1791
coquelicot1795
poppy1796
cherry-red1802
vermilion-red1815
cardinal scarlet1828
geranium1842
dahlia1846
cardinal red1850
cerise1858
cardinal1874
scarlet-crimson1882
vermilion-scarlet1882
pillar box1894
Turkish red1900
signal red1909
fuchsia1923
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vii. 172/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I 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.
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1709 Lusty gallant colour or light red, spadiceus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 110 The French vse therewith [the hyacinth] to die their light reds or lustie-gallant.
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