the quadrille

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A card game from the 1700s
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Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper
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{i} square dance for four couples; music for this dance; card game for four players
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A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded
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A type of square dance, which caught on inearly 19th-century France and, soon afterwards, in England
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A dance originating from the mid 1700s with four dancers forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance
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a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples music for dancing the quadrille
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(fr ) - French dance [back]
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A quadrille is a type of old-fashioned dance for four or more couples. a dance, popular especially in the 19th century, in which the dancers form a square (cuadrilla , from quadriglia, from quadra ). Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England from Parisian ballrooms in 1815, it consisted of four or five contredanses (see country dance), each danced with prescribed combinations of intertwining figures rather than depending on intricate individual steps. It was often danced to opera melodies. See also American square dance
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The Quadrille is a "Set" dance It consists of a series of dance figures, the most frequently used is called the "Flirtation" figure, in which the man dances with each woman in turn
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music for dancing the quadrille
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a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set
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This is a performance by a team of four, six, eight, or more riders, involving complex riding pattern to music
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A dance for four or more couples, popular in the 19th century and consisting of five sections in either 2/4 or 6/8
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4 couples on the sides of a square, couple 1 have their backs to the band, the 2's face the band, the 3's are on the right of the 1's, the 4's face the 3's In some dances couples 1 and 2 are the Ends and 3 and 4 the Sides
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The appropriate music for a quadrille
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