Quadrille : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Quadrille	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Quadrille
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quadrille n music for dancing the quadrille a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [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.