Image:The First Quadrille at Almack's.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Two couples doing a quadrille
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Spanish cuadrillo diminutive form of 'four'.
Noun
en-noun
- A dance originating from the mid 1700s with four dancers forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
#:1891 The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed. � Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&actsurround&offset344004731&tagHardy,+Thomas:+Tess+of+the+d'Urbervilles,+1891&queryquadrille&idHarTess Part 2.]
- A card game from the 1700s.
#:1812 It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors. � Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 17
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
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