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UK
/kwˈɒdɹɪl/
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NOUN
- a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
- music for dancing the quadrille
How To Use quadrille In A Sentence
- Oh, yes, I had three waltzes, the second quadrille and the mazurka, and he is ever so courteous, and kind, and gentlemanly!
- Who might indulge in a boogie-woogie quadrille at such a time is beyond me.
- It could be prompted as a quadrille or used as the figure in a singing call or adapted to a patter routine by having the Four Ladies Chain instead of doing the Allemande Left, etc.
- The quadrille is a stately and a conversational dance. Manners and Social Usages
- The traditional folk dance, the quadrille, dates back to eighteenth century European settlers.
- He went back in to the party and sat in a corner by himself, watching the quadrille dancing and thinking about her. DESPERADOES
- Working with the steps of formal quadrilles and folk dances, St Lucians developed different kinds of dances.
- Traditional French Canadian dances include the quadrille and the gigue.
- Nevertheless our friends did dance on the sands; finding, however, that quadrilles and Sir Roger de Coverley suited them better than polkas and waltzes. Can You Forgive Her?
- A quadrille is a very humdrum performance nowadays to those who know nothing so delightful as the wild monotony of the round dance. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago