QUADRILLE

quadrille

(noun) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples

quadrille

(noun) music for dancing the quadrille

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.

The music for this dance.

(card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.

A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.

Verb

quadrille (third-person singular simple present quadrilles, present participle quadrilling, simple past and past participle quadrilled)

(intransitive) To dance the quadrille.

Etymology 2

Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.

Source: Wiktionary

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Qua*drille", n. Etym: [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. Etym: [F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It. quadriglio; or perhaps from the Spanish. See Quadrille a dance.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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