quadrille Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun music for dancing the quadrille
  2. noun a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples

WordNet

Qua*drille" noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
  2. The appropriate music for a quadrille.
Qua*drille" noun
Etymology
F. quadrille, n. masc., cf. It. quadriglio; or perhaps from the Spanish. See Quadrille a dance.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913