quadrille

Example Sentences

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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

Dressed in white tie and a flowing black cloak, he directs the assembled crowd in a huge quadrille, a square dance rather like a Scottish reel.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2014

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