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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUADRILLE, n. quadril', or cadril'.
1. A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.
2. A kind of dance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: music for dancing the quadrille
2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French, group of knights engaged in a carousel, from Spanish cuadrilla troop, from diminutive of cuadra square, from Latin quadra, quadrum Date: 1726 1. a four-handed variant of ombre popular especially in the 18th century 2. a square dance for four couples made up of five or six figures chiefly in 6/8 and 2/4 time; also music for this dance II. adjective Etymology: French quadrillé Date: circa 1885 marked with squares or rectangles

Britannica Concise

Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable in the late 18th and 19th cent. Imported to England from Parisian ballrooms in 1815, it consisted of four or five contredanses, each danced with prescribed combinations of intertwining figures rather than depending on intricate individual steps. It was often danced to opera melodies. The term is also used for a form of Amer. square dance.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a square dance containing usu. five figures. 2 the music for this. Etymology: F f. Sp. cuadrilla troop, company f. cuadra square or It. quadriglia f. quadra square 2. n. a card game for four players with forty cards, fashionable in the 18th c. Etymology: F, perh. f. Sp. cuartillo f. cuarto fourth, assim. to QUADRILLE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quadrill'e Qua`dril`l['e]", a. [F.] (Art) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrill['e] paper, or plotting paper.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quadrille Qua*drille", n. [F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It. quadriglio; or perhaps from the Spanish. See Quadrille a dance.] A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded. --Hoyle.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quadrille Qua*drille", n. [F. quadrille, n. fem., fr. Sp. cuadrilla meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a square, fr. quattuor four. See Quadrate.] 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate music for a quadrille.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(quadrilles) A quadrille is a type of old-fashioned dance for four or more couples. N-COUNT