About The Word Quadrille
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Quadrille
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What's The Definition Of Quadrille?
[n] a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
[n] music for dancing the quadrille Synonyms | Synonyms for Quadrille: Related Terms | Find terms related to Quadrille: See Also | ballroom music | dance music | danceroom music | lancers | square dance | square dancing Quadrille In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. The appropriate music for a 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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