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quadrille

[kwo-dril, kwuh-, kuh-] / kwɒˈdrɪl, kwə-, kə- /
NOUN
square dance
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The mazurka - derived from a Polish musical form - and contradança from the British quadrille dance.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

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 ● Jan. 20, 2017

At midnight, one dances the fin de siècle quadrille, which peaked in popularity in the late 1800s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2016

Director-General Davis was to lead a quadrille, Burnham a “Berlin,” Mayor Harrison a polka.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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