quadrille
See also: quadrillé
English
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology 1
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, in sense of “group of knights”, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quadra.[1]
Noun
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
- 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.
- The music for this dance.
- (card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
- 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.
- A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Translations
dance
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To dance the quadrille.
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French quadrillé.
Noun
quadrille (plural quadrilles)
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ “quadrille”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
quadrille m or f (plural quadrilles)
Verb
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
- “quadrille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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