quadrille

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Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

1. A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
2. The music for this dance.
3. (card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
4. A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.

Translations

• French: quadrille
• German: Quadrille
• Italian: quadriglia
• Russian: кадри́ль
• Spanish: cuadrilla

Verb

quadrille (quadrilles, present participle quadrilling; past and past participle quadrilled)

1. (intransitive) To dance the quadrille.

Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

1. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.

Related terms

• quad
• quadrella

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