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quadrille |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quadrill'e \Qua`dril`l['e]"\, a. [F.] (Art) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as quadrill['e] paper, or plotting paper. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --Hoyle. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: quadrille n 1: music for dancing the quadrille 2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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