quadrille

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If Doctor Oleander and his cousin don't find their match, my name's not Mollie Miss Dane consulted her jeweled tablets, and discovered that the polka quadrille was the very next in order Shaking out her rosy skirts, she fluttered away, mercilessly bent on manslaughter.

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  1. noun A square dance of French origin composed of five sections and performed by four couples.
  2. noun Music for this dance in 6/8 and 2/4 time.
  3. noun A card game popular during the 18th century, played by four people with a deck of 40 cards.

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  • If Doctor Oleander and his cousin don't find their match, my name's not Mollie Miss Dane consulted her jeweled tablets, and discovered that the polka quadrille was the very next in order Shaking out her rosy skirts, she fluttered away, mercilessly bent on manslaughter. —  The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week
  • He tried for a quadrille, a two-step, a schottische--even for a polka, which she knew he hated; but the schoolma'am was, apparently, the most engaged young woman in Dry Lake that night So Weary owned himself beaten and went back to Miss Forsyth, who had been watching and learning many things and making certain plans. —  The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
  • But she filled up time agreeably till the quadrille was ready. —  Lady Connie
  • She helped him to pin on the small rosette made of the Tamworth colours which marked all the dancers in the royal quadrille, and she told him that Constance Bledlow was to dance it with the Tamworths' eldest son, Lord Bletchley There's a great deal of talk about her, as perhaps you know. —  Lady Connie
  • The next dance was a quadrille, and he saw that the space after that was also vacant; so he boldly wrote down his name for both. —  Mr. Scarborough's Family
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  1. French, from quadrille, team, crew, one of four groups of horsemen, from Spanish cuadrilla, probably diminutive of cuadro, square, from Latin quadrum; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.
  2. French, perhaps from Spanish cuartillo, diminutive of cuarto, fourth, from Latin quārtus; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from quadrille, n.
 

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