Category:Quadrille

Qua*drille", n. Etym: [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.

Quadrille Qua*drille", n. Etym: [f. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It. quadriglio; or Perhaps from the spanish. See quadrille a dance.]

Defn: 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.