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Square dance for four couples
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quadrille
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1773, "lively square dance for four couples," from French quadrille (17c.), originally one of four groups of horsemen in a tournament (a sense attested in English from 1738), from Spanish cuadrilla , diminutive of cuadro "four-sided battle square," from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quadrille is a play by Noël Coward . The romantic comedy premiered in 1952 and starred Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt . It played on Broadway in 1955, where Lunt won a Tony Award for his performance.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. music for dancing the quadrille a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...
Usage examples of quadrille.
Minuets and quadrilles followed each other in succession, and refreshments began to make their appearance.
Quadrille, welche bei den Zeremonien den Ehrenwagen besetzt und an den Fest- und Ehrentagen der Phalanx die Honneurs macht.
After a quadrille, in which I had exerted myself a good deal, I felt hot and went up to my room to put on a lighter suit, and as I was doing so, in came the fair cousin, who asked me if I required anything.
The minuets came to an end, and Dupre announced the quadrilles, and I was glad to see the Chevalier Ville-Follet dancing with the Corticelli.
In cotillion or quadrille, with sets and steps fixed, demanding a certain space, there was little chance of unexpected intimacy.
I then danced with all the ladies present until the good-natured old man got me the object of my vows as a partner in the quadrilles, which he did so easily that no one could have made any remark.
She could not say any more, as she was called away to a game at quadrille.
His great genius for financial combinations was at this time employed by him in gleek, trick-track, quadrille, whist, loo, ombre, and other pastimes of mingled luck and skill.
At the end of the quadrille all the men thought they had a right to take liberties with the abbe, and I became myself rather free with the young girls, who would have been afraid of exposing themselves to ridicule had they offered any opposition to my caresses.
A quadrille was formed, but the thing was contrived in such a manner as to leave me out of it, and the very lady who had refused me as a partner danced with another gentleman.
The quadrille lasted one hour, and I took no part in it, but immediately after it, a Harlequin approached me with the impertinence which belongs to his costume, and flogged me with his wand.
I should have, no doubt, remained unknown, but when the quadrilles were being arranged I took my place in one, without reflecting that I should have to take off my mask.
We spent a couple of hours in talking about astrology, and the same time in playing at quadrille, and then we took a walk in the garden, where I was politely left to enjoy the society of the fair Roman.
When the cool of the evening came they had sat and watched a wedding-party dance quadrilles on a lawn by the river, overhung by chestnut trees and severed by a clear and rapid channel, weedless as the air, from an island crowded by the weather-bleached ruins of a mill.
You will dance a quadrille, in the costume of Francis the First, with the Margravine of Baireuth and the Duchess of Brunswick.