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  1.  The name of a dance; also of a dance-tune.

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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.

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1577.  Breton, Wks. Yng. Wit (Chappell, Mus. Old T., I. 91). The youth must needs go dance, First galliards—then larousse, and heidegy—Old Lusty Gallant—All flowers of the broom.

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1578.  T. Proctor, Gorg. Gallery, D b. A propper Dittie. To the tune of lusty Gallant.

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1594.  Nashe, Terrors of Night, Wks. (Grosart), III. 271. After all they danst Lustie gallant, & a drunken Danish Laualto or two.

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  2.  A fanciful name for some tint of light red.

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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.

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1589.  Rider, Bibl. Schol., 1709. Lusty gallant colour or light red, spadiceus.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 110. The French vse therewith [the hyacinth] to die their light reds or lustie-gallant.

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