quadrille

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

reel

square dance

Traducións

Quadrille

quadrille

quadriglia

quadrille

quadrilha

quadriglio

cuadrilla

kadril

quadrilla

kadril havası

Reel

καδρίλια

καντρίλια

τετράχορος

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/kwɒdˈɹɪl/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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