quadrille.
A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
Meaning & usage
A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
The music for this dance.
A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Where this word comes from
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
To dance the quadrille.
Where this word comes from
French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Marked with squares.
Where this word comes from
From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
Where this word comes from
From French quadrillé (“crosshatched”, adjective).
A square tiling of the plane.
Where this word comes from
Term used by John Horton Conway.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.