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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 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&act=surround&offset=344004731&tag=Hardy,+Thomas:+Tess+of+the+d'Urbervilles,+1891&query=quadrille&id=HarTess? 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 table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors. " Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=80823677&tag=Austen,+Jane:+Pride+and+Prejudice,+1796-1812&query=quadrille&id=AusPrid Chapter 17
- Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
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noun - A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
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noun - (music) an interval of one fifth
- (in piquet) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- a quin or quintuplet
- quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
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noun
- a flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits
- a ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits
- the flat stone covering a cromlech
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