1) Bygone regiment 2) Cavalry soldiers 3) Cavalry, of old 4) Mateus Rose alternative 5) Old cavalrymen 6) Old-fashioned fighting force 7) Portuguese wine 8) Quadrille 9) Set of quadrilles 10) Some cavalry soldiers 1) Dance 
(from the article `quadrille`) ...each other by the right hand, and then each gave her left hand to the opposite man, who turned her into place beside himself. The quadrille was ...
The quadrille of the Lancers was a set dance or single dance invented by a dancing master in Paris about 1836. England took it up and it was fashionable for a number of years in polite society.
Lance-carrying, light cavalry
The lancers is a dance first introduced in Paris in 1836. It is an imitation of a military dance in which men used lances.
[n] - a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples
noun a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples