Quadrillé definitions

Quadrille

1) Ballroom music 2) Country dance 3) Dance form in classical music 4) Dance music 5) Danceroom music 6) Dressage terminology 7) European dance 8) French word used in English 9) Play by Noël Coward 10) Play set in France 11) Square dance 12) Square dance for four couples 13) The music for such a dance
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Quadrille

1) Lancers 2) Sdance
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quadrille

card game played by four people.
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Quadrille

a succession of steps in ballroom dancing in which the man dances in turn with the woman
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Quadrille

Quadrille is a historic dance performed by four couples in a rectangular formation, and 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. It is fashionable late 18th- and 19th-century for four couples in square formation. Imported b...
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Quadrille

[card game] Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century. A variant of the Spanish card game Ombre, it is played by four players in pairs, with a deck of 40 cards (the 8s, 9s and 10s being removed). By the end to the 19th Century the card game fell out of fashion. The novel Pride and Prejudice includes four references to th...
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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 a performance, such as those given by the Spanish ...
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Quadrille

[play] 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 Opera House on 15 July 1952, the play opened at the Phoenix Theatre in Lo...
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quadrille

square dance for four couples; card game for four people
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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. • (n.) A dance having five figures, in common time...
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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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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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Quadrille

A social dance popular in the nineteenth century. It was a square dance in five sections, each in a different time.
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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. See Quadrate .] 1. A dance having ...
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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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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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