Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quadrille

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quadrille


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(1):

(n.) A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.

(2):

(n.) The appropriate music for a quadrille.

(3):

(a.) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrille paper, or plotting paper.

(4):

(n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.