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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. music for dancing the quadrille;

2. a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quadrill'e \Qua`dril`l['e]"\, a. [F.] (Art) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrill['e] paper, or plotting paper. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

quadrille n 1: music for dancing the quadrille 2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples