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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

quadrille

, n. fem., fr. Sp.

cuadrilla

meeting of four or more persons or It.

quadriglia

a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L.

quadra

a square, fr.

quattuor

four. See

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

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

Noun.

[F.

quadrille

, n. masc., cf. It.

quadriglio

; or perhaps from the Spanish. See

a dance.]

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

Hoyle.

Noun.

quadril', or cadril'.

A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.

A kind of dance.