Obs.
1. The name of a dance; also of a dance-tune.
1569. Elderton, 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.
1577. Breton, Wks. Yng. Wit (Chappell, Mus. Old T., I. 91). The youth must needs go dance, First galliardsthen larousse, and heidegyOld Lusty GallantAll flowers of the broom.
1578. T. Proctor, Gorg. Gallery, D b. A propper Dittie. To the tune of lusty Gallant.
1594. Nashe, Terrors of Night, 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.
1587. Harrison, 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 gooseturd greene popingaie blue, lustie gallant.
1589. Rider, Bibl. Schol., 1709. Lusty gallant colour or light red, spadiceus.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 110. The French vse therewith [the hyacinth] to die their light reds or lustie-gallant.