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quadrilles

noun

Meaning

  1. A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
  2. The music for this dance.
  3. A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
  4. A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
  5. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data