quadrille

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Quadrille

Reel

Synonyme

reel

square dance

Übersetzungen

quadriglia

quadrille

quadrille

kadril

quadriglio

quadrilla

quadrilha

cuadrilla

kadril havası

καδρίλια

καντρίλια

τετράχορος

reel

reel

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/kwɒdˈɹɪl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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