Found 2 items, similar to Quadrille.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: quadrille quadrille n 1: music for dancing the quadrille 2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
English → English (gcide) Definition: Quadrille 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The appropriate music for a quadrille. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]