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1. (n.) quadrille
a square dance for four couples, consisting of five parts or movements, each complete in itself.
2. (n.) quadrille
a four-person version of omber, popular in England and France in the 18th century.
3. (adj.) quadrille
ruled in squares, as graph paper.
Etymology: (1880–85; < F quadrillé, ptp. of quadriller to rule in squares, der. of quadrille lozenge < Sp cuadrilla; see quadrille1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) quadrille
music for dancing the quadrille
2. (noun) quadrille
a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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1. (noun) quadrille
a dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set
2. (noun) quadrille
the appropriate music for a quadrille
3. (noun) quadrille
a game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded
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