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Webster 1913 Edition


Quadrille

Qua-drille′

,
Noun.
[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.

Qua-drille′

,
Noun.
[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 1828 Edition


Quadrille

QUADRILLE

,
Noun.
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.