What does QUADRILLE mean?
Definitions for QUADRILLE
kwɒˈdrɪl, kwə-, kə-quadrille
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Princeton's WordNet
quadrillenoun
music for dancing the quadrille
quadrillenoun
a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Quadrillenoun
A game at cards. Dict.
Wikipedia
Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies. The quadrille consists of a chain of four to six contredanses. Latterly the quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies. Performed by four couples in a rectangular formation, it is related to American square dancing. The Lancers, a variant of the quadrille, became popular in the late 19th century and was still danced in the 20th century in folk-dance clubs. A derivative found in the Francophone Lesser Antilles is known as kwadril, and the dance is also still found in Madagascar and is within old Caribbean culture.
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quadrille
A quadrille is a dance that originated in the 18th century, typically performed by four couples in a square formation, or a piece of music for this dance. It was especially popular in France and England. Alternatively, in card games, it refers to a game popular during the 18th century, played by four people with 40 cards.
Webster Dictionary
Quadrillenoun
a dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set
Quadrillenoun
the appropriate music for a quadrille
Quadrillenoun
a game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded
Etymology: [F.]
Wikidata
Quadrille
Quadrille is a historic dance performed by four couples in a rectangular formation, and a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music. A derivative found in the Francophone Lesser Antilles is known in the local Creole as kwadril.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Quadrille
kwa-dril′, n. a square dance for four couples, consisting of five movements: music for such square dances: a game played by four with forty cards.—v.i. to play at quadrille: to dance quadrilles. [Fr.,—Sp. cuadra, a square—L. quadra, a square—quatuor, four.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
quadrille
(Fr.). Small parties of horse richly caparisoned, etc., in tournaments and at public festivals. The quadrilles were distinguished from one another by the shape or color of the coats which the riders wore.
Etymology and Origins
Quadrille
Expresses the French for “a little square,” in allusion to the positions taken up by the dancers.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of QUADRILLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of QUADRILLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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