Quadrille

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [F. quadrille, n. fem., fr. Sp.
     cuadrilla meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a
     band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a
     square, fr. quattuor four. See {Quadrate}.]
     1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples
        of dancers being in each set.


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     2. The appropriate music for a quadrille.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadrill'e \Qua`dril`l['e]"\, a. [F.] (Art)
     Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at
     right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrill['e] paper,
     or plotting paper.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It.
     quadriglio; or perhaps from the Spanish. See {Quadrille} a
     dance.]
     A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the
     remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and
     eights are discarded. --Hoyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quadrille
       n 1: music for dancing the quadrille
       2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples