Quadrille is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUADRILLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to dance the quadrille
NOUN:
• (French) a square dance for four couples
• a square dance performed typically by four couples and containing five figures, each of which is a complete dance in itself.
• a piece of music for a quadrille.
• each of four groups of riders taking part in a tournament or carousel, distinguished by a special costume or colours.
• a riding display
• a trick-taking card game for four players using a pack of forty cards (i.e. one lacking eights, nines, and tens), fashionable in the 18th century.
• a ruled grid of small squares, especially on paper
• A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
• The appropriate music for a quadrille.
• A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
• music for dancing the quadrille
• a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
• square dance for four couples
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a four-handed variant of ombre popular especially in the 18th century

Words related to QUADRILLE

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Words that contain QUADRILLE

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How to use QUADRILLE in a sentence

• THE BALL IS GENERALLY OPENED, that is, the first place in the first quadrille is occupied, by the lady of the house.
• Idly they talked of waltz and quadrille, Idly they laughed, like other girls, Who over the fire, when all is still, Comb out their braids and curls.
• I played the piano for the first quadrille, and aunt Helen for the second dance.
• The Commissioner and some of the other big wigs danced in the same quadrille.
• There could not be a fancy ball without a Waverley quadrille.
• Fancy Londonderry House going to the London police-office to get permission for a quadrille or a concert.
• In the drawing-room, after dinner, someone proposed a carpet quadrille, but Lord Hartledon seemed averse to it.
• She placed her hand in his, and they took their places in a quadrille opposite to Madame du Gua.
• Petersburg dancing at a Court ball in a quadrille opposite the Empress.
• The day began to dawn, the wax lights paled, the players joined the dancers for a last quadrille.
• Eval at the same instant approached, the one to claim, the other to request, Caroline as his partner in the last quadrille before supper.
• Eval did not join in the quadrille, and after lingering by Mrs.
• Many a burlesque quadrille I had with Terriss and others in later days.
• I knew no dances but square dances, so they got up an old-fashioned quadrille for me and I managed somehow to go through it.
• At the beginning and end of a quadrille the gentleman bows to his partner, and bows again on handing her to a seat.
• The Quadrille is the most universal, as it is certainly the most sociable, of all fashionable dances.
• This quadrille has, within the last few years become more fashionable than formerly.
• We have observed that of late it has become the fashion to substitute new tunes for the old well-known music of the Lancers Quadrille.
• When these are used, the Lancers, in our opinion, loses its individuality and spirit, becoming almost like a common quadrille.
• Those who have mastered the steps of the Cellarius will find little trouble in dancing this elegant quadrille.
• The couples are arranged as in the ordinary quadrille.
• But if there are more than eight in the quadrille, the music must be continued until all have regained their places.
• Old Cady Graves paced up and down playing his violin, as usual, and calling off for the quadrille, in his high pitched rhythmic cadence.
• Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
• Ross was here too and she was busy in assisting to get up the Highland quadrille.
• You could almost hear a band playing, and see a bunch of old-timers in wigs and white stockings dancing a quadrille.
• All she could do, however, was to bow her consent, take his arm, and walk, pale, silent, and stately, to the top of a quadrille.
• She would not have believed, when she awoke that morning, that it was possible to endure so much real suffering as she was enduring, in the short space of one quadrille.

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