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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