galliardise

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  1. Merriment; excessive gaiety; merrymaking. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici.

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  1. Also galliardize; from Old French gaillardise, from gaillard, gay: see galliard.
 

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