Gaillard

There is evidently an unsuspected strain of the 'gaillard' in an imperturbable nation. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Tu nous dis tousiours quelque chose de gaillard pour nous resiouyr; si sela arriuoit nous serions bien-heureux. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Doom throbbed to the waves, but the flageolet stirred in him not so much surprise at this incongruous experience as a wave of emotion where all his past of gaillard was crystalled in a second -- many nights of dance and song anew experienced in a mellow note or two; an old love reincarnated in a phrase (and the woman in the dust); the evenings of ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The Abbé Matouillet plainly told him that Heaven smiled upon the cause, and introduced him to the prince, who administered the oath of allegiance, which the credulous Norman is said to have signed with the seal of his lips on a volume that looked like a book of _gaillard_ songs, but which the simple soldier mistook for the Gospels. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

One would think a 'suisse' would have done; but we are swells now -- _avec ce gaillard-là_, only the tiptop is good enough. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)

It must to say that he was always near to himself expose, but one no could mention the least thing without that this gaillard offered to bet the bottom, no matter what, and to take the side that one him would, as I you it said all at the hour (tout a l'heure). ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

It faut dire qu'il etait toujours pret a'exposer, qu'on ne pouvait mentionner la moindre chose sans que ce gaillard offrit de parier la - dessus n'importe quoi et de prendre le cote que l'on voudrait, comme je vous le disais tout a l'heure. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

I think the restaurant we dined in was the only one in the place, and our gaillard of a host -- he was a straight-backed, well-set-up chap, with rather fine eyes -- did us on the whole pretty well. ❋ Oliver [pseud.] Onions (1917)

Gaylard, sometimes made into the imitative Gaylord, is Fr. gaillard, brisk, lively ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

The Queen was delighted with the little boy, and made him dance a gaillard on her left hand. ❋ Unknown (1901)

His numerous commercial voyages had made them well acquainted with each other, but on the present occasion Carbuccia presented an appearance which alarmed his friend; a _gaillard grand et solide_ had been metamorphosed suddenly into an emaciated and feeble old man. ❋ Arthur Edward Waite (1899)

"Bravo, mon vieux gaillard!" cried Captain de Hamal. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

_Un grand gaillard_, my brethren, who can strike a solid blow for liberty, equality and fraternity. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

It faut dire qu'il etait toujours pret a'exposer, qu'on ne pouvait mentionner la moindre chose sans que ce gaillard offrit de parier la-dessus n'importe quoi et de prendre le cote que l'on voudrait, comme je vous le disais tout a l'heure. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

It is a jolly gaillard of fifty who spoils no fun. ' ❋ George Meredith (1868)