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gaillarde

French, noun\ɡa.jaʁd\

gaillarde is a French feminine noun meaning “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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of gaillard. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancienne danse au mouvement animé”.

What does gaillarde mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    datedfemininegalliard: 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. 2

    femininethe galliard, a 16th-century European dance

adjective

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of gaillard

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ancienne danse au mouvement animé. 2. Air de musique qui accompagnait cette danse. 3. Taille d’une fonte de caractère d’imprimerie, d’un corps de huit points ou à peu près, intermédiaire entre le petit-texte et le petit-romain. 4. Substantivement, par ellipse, pour une mouche gaillarde, un grain de beauté factice placé sur le nez.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of gaillarde

  • gaillardes plural
  • gaillard masculine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce gaillarde?

  • \ɡa.jaʁd\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to gaillarde

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is gaillarde in French?

gaillarde appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).