quadrille

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

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

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

As a dance form, forró is descended from the quadrille, a medieval French style that later made its way to Portugal.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2012

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