quadrille

Example Sentences

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The room features holographic-type images of eight dancers in period dress performing a dance called a quadrille to the sounds of La Traviata.

From BBC

I moved to Chicago after graduating from Queens College and over the years regularly found myself dancing the Queens-finessing quadrille.

From New York Times

In the dizzying quadrille of leaders known here as “Canberra’s churn,” Australia has a brand new prime minister.

From New York Times

Conjuring dancing quadrilles, mixing milk punch, his face beaming with mirth and mischief, Dickens celebrated with a vengeance that year.”

From Seattle Times

He likes the sound the keys make, he has said, but turns to the Olympia only once a paragraph he has worked on in his quadrille notebooks seems finished.

From The Guardian