quadrille
See also: quadrillé
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrench, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.[1]
Noun
editquadrille (plural quadrilles)
- (dance) 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: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- (music) The music for this dance.
- c. 19th century, J. M. Crofts (lyrics and music), “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.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- 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
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Verb
editquadrille (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.
Etymology 2
editFrom French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
Adjective
editquadrille (not comparable)
- (of paper) Marked with squares.
- 1961, Robert Francouer, The World of Teilhard, pages 28-29:
- Penknife, hand-lens, padlock key, marching compass and small cash went in his trouser pockets, leaving the tunic pockets for the little black quadrille notebook, pencil and pen, and the breast pockets for his breviary on one side and cigarettes and matches on the other.
Noun
editquadrille (plural quadrilles)
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
editTerm used by John Horton Conway.
Noun
editquadrille (plural quadrilles)
- (mathematics) A square tiling of the plane.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ “quadrille”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editquadrille m or f (plural quadrilles)
Verb
editquadrille
- inflection of quadriller:
Further reading
edit- “quadrille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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