QUADRILLE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

3.
n.

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.