Quadrille

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A square dance of French origin composed of five sections and performed by four couples.
  • n. Music for this dance in 6/8 and 2/4 time.
  • n. A card game popular during the 18th century, played by four people with a deck of 40 cards.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A dance originating from the mid 1700s with four dancers forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
  • n. A card game from the 1700s.
  • n. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals.
  • n. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
  • n. The appropriate music for a quadrille.
  • n. A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game played by four persons with forty cards, which are the remainder of the pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
  • n. A square dance for four couples, consisting regularly of five parts or movements, each complete in itself — namely, le pantalon, Pété, la poule, la trénise (or la pastourelle), and la finale.
  • n. Any single set of dancers or maskers arranged in four sets or groups.
  • n. Any square dance resembling the quadrille.
  • n. Music for such square dances.
  • Same as quadrillé.
  • To play at quadrille.
  • To dance quadrilles.
  • Divided or marked off into squares; having a pattern composed of small squares: said of textile fabrics, writing-papers ruled with lines crossing at right angles, and the like.
  • n. A small squadron; a cluster of richly caparisoned horsemen at a tournament or mounted fête. They were distinguished by different colors.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
  • n. music for dancing the quadrille
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