quadrille in English

noun

1

a square dance performed typically by four couples and containing five figures, each of which is a complete dance in itself.

Working with the steps of formal quadrilles and folk dances, St Lucians developed different kinds of dances.

2

a trick-taking card game for four players using a deck of forty cards (i.e., one lacking eights, nines, and tens), fashionable in the 18th century.

3

a ruled grid of small squares, especially on paper.

Use "quadrille" in a sentence

1. My biology lab notes are written on green-tint quadrille.

2. 3 Many a quadrille table was spoiled that memorable evening.

3. 5 For the moment, the dance which is in progress is a quadrille.

4. 2 A party of enthusiasts danced a quadrille on a flat rock near the middle of the stream.

5. Noun Contredanse 1 A French form of country dance, originating in the 18th century and related to the quadrille

6. Contredanse definition: a courtly Continental version of the English country dance , similar to the quadrille Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

7. 6 Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.

8. 7 She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening.

9. 8 So there is a lot to said in defense of the US, right now, devoting a large amount of attention to the complicated quadrille of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

10. I had to draw every character by hand on quadrille graph paper -- there were four weights of Bell Centennial — pixel by pixel, then encode them raster line by raster line for the keyboard.

11. 4 When the quadrille was over, I went over and said good evening to the hostess who, for the benefit of her guests, was displaying a dazzling pair of shoulders and much of her magnificent breasts.

12. 30 When the quadrille was over, I went over and said good evening to the hostess who, for the benefit of her guests, was displaying a dazzling pair of shoulders and much of her magnificent breasts.

13. A more than slightly crazy dabbler, Hair mussed, bedabbled clothes: “I am suffering from Andabatism! So I must call someone who knows!” He hastily phoned the dabster: “I've heard you’re one of the pros! Of the dabb; dabchick; daboia- Which has the strongest nose?” The above poem is my take on d’Verse’s Quadrille challenge #119.

14. A more than slightly crazy dabbler, Hair mussed, Bedabbled clothes: “I am suffering from andabatism! So I must call someone who knows!” He hastily phoned the dabster: “I've heard you’re one of the pros! Of the dabb; dabchick; daboia- Which has the strongest nose?” The above poem is my take on d’Verse’s Quadrille challenge #119.