Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quadrille"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quadrill'e \Qua`dril`l['e]"\, a. [F.] (Art)
Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at
right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrill['e] paper,
or plotting paper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It.
quadriglio; or perhaps from the Spanish. See {Quadrille} 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quadrille \Qua*drille"\, n. [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 {Quadrate}.]
1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples
of dancers being in each set.
2. The appropriate music for a quadrille.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quadrille
n 1: music for dancing the quadrille
2: a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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