QUADRILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quadrille mean? 

• QUADRILLE (noun)
  The noun QUADRILLE has 2 senses:

1. music for dancing the quadrille

2. a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples

  Familiarity information: QUADRILLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUADRILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Music for dancing the quadrille

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quadrille" is a kind of...):

dance music (music to dance to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("quadrille" is a kind of...):

square dance; square dancing (American country dancing in which couples form squares)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quadrille"):

lancers (a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It now first struck her, that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Saturday night before I left Hunsford—between our pools at quadrille, while Mrs. Jenkinson was arranging Miss de Bourgh's footstool, that she said, 'Mr. Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake; and for your own, let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way. This is my advice. Find such a woman as soon as you can, bring her to Hunsford, and I will visit her.'

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)