Meaning of Quadrille | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
2. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
3. A square tiling of the plane.
4. The music for this dance.
5. A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
6. A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.

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Examples

“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.”

“There was ol' Mickey Coote Who played hard on his flute When the ladies lined up for a set He was tootin' with skill For each sparkling quadrille Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet”

“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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