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1. quadrille
   [n] - music for dancing the quadrille 2. [n] - a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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2. Quadrille
   Qua·drille' noun [ French quadrille , noun fem., from Spanish cuadrilla meeting of four or more persons or Italian quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. from Latin quadra a square, from quattuor four. S...
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3. Quadrille
   Qua·drille' noun [ French quadrille , noun masc., confer Italian 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.
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4. Quadrillé
   Qua`dril`lé' adjective [ French] (Art) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrillé paper, or plotting paper.
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5. quadrille
   noun a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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6. quadrille
   noun music for dancing the quadrille
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7. Quadrille
   • (a.) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrille paper, or plotting paper. • (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. &bull...
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8. quadrille
   (from the article `ombre`) ...its being the first game in which a trump was established by bidding rather than by the random process of turning the last card dealt. In the 18th ...
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9. quadrille
   fashionable late 18th- and 19th-century dance for four couples in square formation. Imported by English aristocrats in 1815 from elite Parisian ... [1 related articles]
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10. Quadrille
    The quadrille is a square dance for four couples. It was first danced in England in 1815, having been introduced by the Duke of Devonshire from France where it originated, and superseded in 1850 by the lancers.
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11. quadrille
    card game played by four people.
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12. Quadrille
    `Quadrille` is a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music. A derivative found in the Francophone Lesser Antilles is known in the local Creole as kwadril. The beginning – horsemen: The term qua...
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13. Quadrille
    (play) |Sacha Guitry--> Quadrille is a play by Noël Coward. The romantic comedy premiered in 1952 and starred Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. It played on Broadway in 1955, where Lunt won a Tony Award for his performance. History: After a provincial tour beginning at the Manchester O...
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14. Quadrille
    (dressage) `Quadrille` is a choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, which is often compared to an equestrian ballet or to a drill team. A minimum of four horses are used, although many times more (always in pairs), which perform movements together. Quadrille may be ridden as...
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15. Quadrille
    (card game) `Quadrille` is a Spanish trick-taking card game directly ancestral to Boston and chief progenitor of Solo whist. It was perfected in early 18th century France as a four-handed version of the Spanish card game Ombre, which was superseded as a fashionable game in about 1726, althoug...
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