Quadrille
[kwɒ'drɪl] or [kwə'drɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples.
(noun.) music for dancing the quadrille.
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
(n.) The appropriate music for a quadrille.
(n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
Editor: Theresa
Definition
n. a square dance for four couples consisting of five movements: music for such square dances: a game played by four with forty cards.—v.i. to play at quadrille: to dance quadrilles.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of dancing a quadrille, foretells that some pleasant engagement will occupy your time. See Dancing.
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Examples
- She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- My dun-coloured dress did well enough under a palet?t on the stage, but would not suit a waltz or a quadrille. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Saying these words, Caddy laughingly sat down at a little jingling square piano and really rattled off a quadrille with great spirit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The various sounds which found their way downstairs announced the commencement of the first quadrille. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Are you coming to fetch me for the quadrille? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I waltzed and danced quadrilles with half the young ladies and gentlemen in the room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den, and quadrilles were being systematically got through by two or three sets of dancers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As well might he have endeavoured to move rocks and mountains and make them dance quadrilles at Almack's! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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