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quadrille

noun as in square dance

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The mazurka - derived from a Polish musical form - and contradança from the British quadrille dance.

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It seemed the entire chorus of The Nutcracker would hum a selection of Viennese waltzes and quadrilles and gallops.

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

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On the dance floor, guests ingest opium with lolling tongues, then variously pop their booties and walk a quadrille.

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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