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

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

Taking cues from the quadrille, an 18th-century European social dance and cousin of American square dancing, the choreographer Lar Lubovitch has invited four colleagues to make dances that can be viewed from four sides.

From New York Times

Every weekday at noon, in a ritual as formalized as a quadrille, Page Six names descended on what was now being called the Grill Room, took a seat at their customary table and dined — abstemiously.

From New York Times