quadrille

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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.

Verb

To dance the quadrille.

Adj

Marked with squares.

Conceptes

quadrilla

Sinònims

reel

square dance

Traduccions

Quadrille

quadrille

quadriglia

quadrille

quadriglio

quadrilha

cuadrilla

kadril

kadril havası

Reel

καδρίλια

καντρίλια

τετράχορος

reel

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kwɒdˈɹɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.