quadrille
Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪl/
The English word “quadrille” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
- The music for this dance.
- A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
- A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
- A square tiling of the plane.
verb
- To dance the quadrille.
adjective
- Marked with squares.
Etymology
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
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More English words
- quadrilingually
- quadriliteral
- quadriliteralism
- quadrillage
- quadrille paper
- quadriller
- quadrilliard
- quadrillion
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