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.
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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.
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Qua`dril`le" (?), a. [F.]
(Art)
Marked with squares, generally by thin lines
crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as,
quadrille paper, or plotting paper.
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