Definition of quadrille Quadrille

quad•rille

We found 14 definitions of quadrille from 6 different sources.

What does quadrille mean?

Noun Plural: quadrilles
quadrille - a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
		square dance, square dancing American country dancing in which couples form squares
quadrille - music for dancing the quadrille

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quadrille (Noun)
A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four dancers forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance .
quadrille (Noun)
The music for this dance.
quadrille (Noun)
A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s.
quadrille (Noun)
A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
quadrille (Noun)
Quadrille ruled graph paper , quad paper .
quadrille (Verb)
To dance the quadrille.

quadrille (n.)
A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
quadrille (n.)
The appropriate music for a quadrille.
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.

quadrille
kwa-dril′, 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. [Fr.,—Sp. cuadra, a square—L. quadra, a square—quatuor, four.]

quadrille
(Fr.). Small parties of horse richly caparisoned, etc., in tournaments and at public festivals. The quadrilles were distinguished from one another by the shape or color of the coats which the riders wore.