Why this word is great
GALLIARDISE — [Noun] A state of extreme, boisterous gaiety; vigorous and spirited revelry. From Middle French gaillardise, from gaillard ("lively, vigorous") + the noun-forming suffix -ise. Unlike "jollity," which suggests a warm, steady cheer, or "festivity," which names the event itself, galliardise is the untamed, kinetic exuberance that animates it. It is the percussive thunder of a tavern table pounded in time with a bawdy song, the reckless, wine-flung laughter chasing candle-smoke toward the rafters, and the sudden, communal roar at a jest that would fall flat in the sober light of day—a fleeting, defiant architecture of noise built against the encroaching dark.