quadrille

See also: quadrillé

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quadrille

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Two couples doing a quadrille

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1 edit

French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.^[1]

Noun edit

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.
- c. 19th century, J. M. Crofts (attributed), "The Irish Rover"
  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
(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 edit

dance

Bulgarian: кадрил (bg) m (kadril)
Catalan: quadrilla (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 方阵舞
Czech: čtverylka (cs) f
Esperanto: kvadrilo
Estonian: kadrill
French: quadrille (fr) f
Georgian: კადრილი (ḳadrili)
German: Quadrille (de) f
Greek: καντρίλια (el) f (kantrília), καδρίλια (el) f (kadrília)
Ido: quadrilo (io)
Italian: quadriglia f
Polish: kadryl (pl) m
Portuguese: quadrilha (pt) f
Russian: кадри́ль (ru) f (kadrílʹ)
Spanish: cuadrilla (es) f
Swedish: kadrilj (sv) c
Turkish: kadril (tr)

Verb edit

quadrille (third-person singular simple present quadrilles, present participle quadrilling, simple past and past participle quadrilled)

(intransitive) To dance the quadrille.
- 1834, Arthur Courtenay, Autobiography and Letters of Arthur Courtenay, page 36:
  We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.