quadrille
See also: quadrillé
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology 1[edit]
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.[1]
Noun[edit]
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
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1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles[1], part 2:
- The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
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- The music for this dance.
- (card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
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1812, Jane Austen, chapter 17, in Pride and Prejudice[2]:
- It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
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- A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Translations[edit]
dance
Verb[edit]
quadrille (third-person singular simple present quadrilles, present participle quadrilling, simple past and past participle quadrilled)
- (intransitive) To dance the quadrille.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quadrille m, f (plural quadrilles)
- (bullfighting) cuadrilla
Verb[edit]
quadrille
- first-person singular present indicative of quadriller
- third-person singular present indicative of quadriller
- first-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
- third-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
- second-person singular imperative of quadriller
Further reading[edit]
- “quadrille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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