quadrillen.1
/kwɒˈdrɪl/, /kwəˈdrɪl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪl/, /k(w)əˈdrɪl/ 1. Each of four groups of riders taking part in an equestrian display or tournament, distinguished from one another by costume or colour; (in later use) an organized team of riders that performs or competes in equestrian events.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > one of four groups wearing special costume
quadrille1777
1605 R. Treswell Relation Journey Earle of Nottingham 48 I. Quadrill. The King. Duke of Cea. Marq. of S. German. [etc.]... 8. Quadrill. The Prince of Savoy. Mar. Doste. [etc.].
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 389 The first Quadrille, led on by their Chief, the Duke of Weissenfels.
1777 J. Carter King Zayde in Evans O.B. (1784) III. xviii. 182 Two of the four quadrilles,..Take lances in their hands.
1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. III. Hist. & Ethnol. 92 The carrousel took the place of the tournament, especially in France. It opened with a quadrille of horsemen, in bands of four to twelve knights, and commanded by a leader.
1876 Times 9 May 12/1 The saddles and streamers of the horses—each quadrille having its distinguishing tint, red, blue, green, or orange,—formed a very enlivening spectacle.
1949 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 11 Apr. 2/3 There will be rangers, rangerettes, posses and quadrilles in full regalia.
1968 Northwest Arkansas Times 6 July 4/2 Various riding clubs and quadrilles provided color with matched outfits.
2003 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 4 Nov. 5 a She..is a member of and designer for a competitive Quadrille, a group of four horses and riders who ride together to music.
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a. A square dance, typically performed by four couples, containing five sections or figures each of which is a complete dance in itself. Also set of quadrilles.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > square, figure, or set dance > [noun] > specific dances
brawla1542
branglec1550
caterbrawl1565
bransle1590
branle1674
bocanea1701
cotillion1766
quadrille1773
German cotillion1831
supper quadrille1831
Grandpère1835
galop1837
brantle1846
German1853
lancers1862
grandfather1897
1773 E. Harris Let. 2 Mar. in Lett. Earl Malmesbury (1870) I. 269 A few evenings ago some company were rehearsing quadrilles at Mrs. Hobart's in St. James' Square.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI lxx. 138 Dissolving in the waltz..Or proudlier prancing with mercurial skill Where Science marshals forth her own quadrille.
a1839 J. Smith Comic Misc. (1840) 142 When I named Paine, and his set of Quadrilles..The poor ignoramusses thought I meant Tom.
1862 R. H. Gronow Reminisc. 44 I recollect the persons who formed the first quadrille that was ever danced at Almack's were Lady Jersey [etc.].
1887 B. Matthews & G. H. Jessop Gold Mine (1908) i. 21 They are getting up a set of quadrilles.
1903 J. Fox Little Shepherd xviii. 207 The dance was a quadrille, and the figure was ‘grand right and left’.
1939 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 3 Sept. in War within & Without (1980) 49 Newton has brought an enormous turtle for Jon from Florida... It is like a dream of the Alice in Wonderland illustrations come to life. I half expect it to get up, offer a fin, and dance a quadrille with me!
1991 Amer. Square Dance June 37/2 Proper timing (starting the first command on the prephrase) does not necessarily mean doing a quadrille.
b. A group of dancers; esp. such a group in formation for a quadrille.
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1793 J. Parkinson Diary 17 Mar. in Tour of Russia, Siberia & Crimea (1971) 101 A quadrille danced a cotillon to night as well as the night before.
1842 ‘C. Selby’ Robert Macaire i. 31 (stage-direct.) A Quadrille of Sixteen, in two lines, by all the Characters and the Corps de Ballet.
1894 Daily Gaz. (Janesville, Wisconsin) 17 Mar. 3/4 The four quadrilles of dancers dispose themselves in two long lines before him.
1957 C. Gurdlestone Jean-Philippe Rameau xii. 456 It is described in the text as ‘ballet figuré’... Its episodes include a quadrille of Greek girls who vie with one another in the race.
1999 R. G. Echevarría Pride of Havana iii. 42 Out in the street comparsas, quadrilles of dancers, carried around big, stuffed scorpions, while blue banners unfolded from windows and balconies.
c. A piece of music to which a quadrille may be danced.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others
galliard1545
passamezzo1568
pavane1591
passy-measure1597
rant1656
passacaglia1659
passacaille1667
chaconne1685
rigadoon1690
passepied1696
rigaudon1708
bourrée1776
minuet de la cour1783
quadrille1802
treble1805
pigeon wing1807
polka1825
redowa1843
polka time1844
écossaise1863
verbunkos1880
drag1901
foxtrot1915
burru1929
rumba1931
palais glide1936
Lambeth Walk1937
jitterbug1939
high life1942
Zydeco1949
hand jive1958
hand jiving1958
hokey-cokey1966
twist1966
chicken scratch1972
smoocher1976
funana1981
New Beat1988
trance dance1988
1802 C. Griesbach (title) Twelve German quadrilles, waltzes and country dances. Compiled & arranged for the piano or harp.
1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 19 Dec. (1971) 298 Mr. Smith the rejected addresses man..sung for us Quadrilles while they were dancing.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxviii. 379 [She] sat down at a little jingling square piano, and really rattled off a quadrille.
1929 G. Grove Dict. Mus. & Musicians (ed. 3) 798 His ‘Royal Irish Quadrille’ composed 1841 was published in 1842.
1996 F. Chappell Farewell I'm bound to leave You (1997) 212 A tune was in progress: not a hell-for-leather breakdown but an easygoing stately quadrille.
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General attributive and objective.
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1782 J. P. Macmahon tr. L. S. Mercier Paris in Miniature 146 The only matter which is treated here with a kind of solemnity, and as a business of the first importance, is a Quadrille-dance.
1817 Title of Engraving 4 Mar. in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 775 Dos ā Dos—Accidents in Quadrille Dancing.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. viii. 229 I disappointed her in not searching for her at every drum and quadrille party.
1853 C. Dickens Christmas Stories 318 It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
1911 Times 22 Mar. 8/1 Lady Tree will have a quadrille party of Shakespeare's lovers.
1931 R. P. T. Coffin Portrait Amer. xii. 75 There were several ordinary brassbands, and there was Smith's Quadrille Band, in red trouser's frogged with blue, from New Bedford.
2001 R. Peffer Virgin Islands (Lonely Planet) 27/1 Today, the world-touring Caribbean Dance Company of St Croix preserves quadrille dancing..for public entertainment at festivals.
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quadrillen.2
/kwɒˈdrɪl/, /kwəˈdrɪl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪl/, /k(w)əˈdrɪl/ Now historical.
A trick-taking card game for four players using a pack of forty cards (without the eights, nines, and tens of the ordinary pack). Formerly also in plural.Quadrille was adapted from three-handed ombre, becoming very fashionable in the early 18th cent.; by the end of that century it had in turn been largely superseded by whist.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > ombre and quadrille > [noun]
ombre1661
quadrille1720
1720 (title) Game of Quadrille, or Ombre by Four.
a1726 J. Vanbrugh Journey to London (1728) ii. 26 I would play at Quadrille soberly.
1730 ‘T. Thumb’ Helter Skelter Way of Writing 49 They impiously mimick'd their Betters, and play'd away the whole Night at Quadrille.
1768 in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 161 I preferred a sober game of quadrilles with Miss Chudleigh.
1823 C. Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist in Elia 75 Quadrille, she has often told me, was her first love; but whist had engaged her maturer esteem.
1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxiii. 198 Amongst the winter evening's amusements were two forms of quadrille: the old-fashioned game of cards, and the more recently fashionable dance.
a1945 J. Huizinga Homo Ludens (1950) xii. 198 From the days of ombre and quadrille to whist and bridge, card-games have undergone a process of increasing refinement, but only with bridge have the modern social techniques made themselves master of the game.
1989 M. Darke First of Midnight (BNC) 49 A few tables of cards—quadrille, limited loo..yes, and a good supper.
1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 46 One cannot seem to make it through any Jane Austen book without a brush with whist, speculation, quadrille, or casino.
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General attributive.
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1731 Lady Hervey Let. 19 June in H. Howard Lett. I. (1824) 411 I wish he may not fill his belly more than his pocket this journey; I am sure he will do so if John Dories and quadrille players are plenty this season.
1732 J. Gay Distress'd Wife iv. Lady Rampant depends upon your ladyship to make up her quadrille party.
1808 J. Austen Let. 1 Oct. (1995) 140 Old Mrs Pollens & Mrs Heywood, with whom my Mother made a Quadrille Table.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xiv. 44 The old Countess sat down to the quadrille table with three other ladies.
1886 F. G. S. in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. I. 477/2 Quadrille pools are the fishes or other counters used in playing the old-fashioned game of quadrille.
1966 C. B. Woods in H. Fielding Author's Farce 96 The next major change is the replacement of the quadrille game by Punch's account of it.
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† quadrillen.3
Obsolete. rare.
A needle with a square point.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > needle > types of
pack-needle1327
packing needle1597
Whitechapel needle1737
quadrille1818
blunt1833
sharps1834
darning-needle1848
between1849
ground-down1862
straw1862
darner1882
wool-needle1882
stocking needle1886
swing needle1954
1818 Art of preserving Feet 68 Scratching it with the point of the quadrille or squared bodkin.
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quadrilleadj.n.4
/kwaˈdriːeɪ/, /kwaˈdriːl/, U.S. /ˌkwɑdriˈeɪ/, /kwɑˈdrɪl/ A. adj.
= quadrilled adj.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [adjective]
checkeryc1440
checkeda1475
chequered1486
counterchanged1648
tessellated1723
diced1725
dam-brod1779
blue-checked1790
quadrilled1835
quadrille1856
chessboard1889
windowpane-checked1917
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > quadrilled
quadrilled1835
quadrille1856
1856 Times 4 June 7/1 (advt.) Delarue's celebrated quadrille paper and envelopes, in various tints, a beautiful paper for setting off the writing.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 38/3 Red leather vest pocket memorandum... 40 leaves..quadrille ruling.
1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 320/1 Quadrille paper, paper faintly ruled with small squares. Also, paper so patterned with a watermark or a plate finish.
1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 6/1 (advt.) Deep green leather effect binder. Complete with 50 unheaded grey quadrille leaves 4 ring fitting.
B. n.4
A pattern of small squares; paper or other material having such a pattern.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun]
checkingc1440
checkc1450
chequer-work1519
chequer1779
chequerboard1835
checkery1837
quadrille1884
windowpane check1898
Prince of Wales check1935
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > other types of paper
writing paper1610
gilt paper1645
chancery-double1712
stamp paper1765
satin paper1776
cardstock1840
tablet paper1876
quadrille1884
P.O.P.1895
copy-paper1902
Silurian1942
sticky note1978
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of
masclea1425
pomet1582
loop-lace1632
colbertinea1685
coxcomb1693
trolly-lolly1693
trolly1699
piece lace1702
mignonette1751
web lace1795
guard-lace1804
Antwerp lace1811
warp-lace1812
cardinal lace1842
guipure1843
run lace1843
Shetland lace1848
lacis1865
pot lace1865
reticella1865
tape guipure1865
quadrille1884
reticello1895
tambour-lace1899
rosaline1900
ring net1901
tracing-lace1901
shadow lace1914
1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 313/1 The new lace is called ‘quadrillé’. It has large square meshes [etc.].
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 354/2 Manuscript and Account Books. Ruled either with Feint lines, Cash Column, or Quadrille.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 375/1 Quadrillé, a diapered ground pattern with quatrefoils and squares much favoured at Chantilly, painted in blue third quarter of the eighteenth century.
1994 Stamp & Coin Mart Mar. 69/2 (advt.) [Album] Complete with 100 cartridge leaves. 11 × 9 3/4, printed in feint grey quadrille.
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† quadrillev.1
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To play at the game of quadrille. Also transitive with it.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > ombre and quadrille > play at quadrille [verb (intransitive)]
quadrille1734
1734 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 508 They quadrilled after dinner till ten, and I dozed by them..losing at cards infallibly lulls me to sleep.
1778 ‘Gentleman’ Let. 6 Nov. in Familiar Lett. to Select Friends (1788) 41 We quadrilled it, till some of us, I believe, were heartily tired.
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quadrillev.2
/kwɒˈdrɪl/, /kwəˈdrɪl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪl/, /k(w)əˈdrɪl/ 1. † a. transitive. With it: to dance a quadrille. Also with cognate object (rare). Obsolete.
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1819 in H. L. Piozzi Lett. (2002) 6 Nov. VI. 344 Run Neighbours run; all London is Quadrilling it, While Order and Sobriety dance Dos-a-dos.
1822 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1952) X. 346 ‘Life’ on Tip-Toe or Dick Wildfire Quadrilling it, in the Salon de Mars in the Champs Elysées.
1841 J. L. Motley Let. 26 Dec. in Corr. (1889) I. iv. 93 I waltzed one waltz, and quadrilled one quadrille, but it was hard work.
b. intransitive. To dance a quadrille. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > square, figure, or set dance > [verb (intransitive)]
quadrille1825
cotillion1833
1825 W. T. Moncrieff Giovanni in London (new ed.) i. v. 24 I can quadrille and waltz as well.
1828 Light & Shade II. 195 His uses are..to quadrille with young [ladies].
1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 59 Teaching us how to quadrille and how to valse.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. ii. 24 I..rejoiced with the happy birds quadrilling around the sentinel trees.
1975 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) (Nexis) 5 Aug. 21 Lime Tree Garden All-Age School students quadrilled and contra danced at the school's graduation.
1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. a26/1 A Floozie and a Dandy quarreled and quadrilled.
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1827 T. Moore Poet. Wks. 364/2 Men..Quadrill'd, on one side, into fops, And drill'd, on t'other, into slaves!
Derivatives
quaˈdrilling n.
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1820 W. M. Praed County Ball 399 Upon our waltzing and quadrilling.
1894 Sunday Times (1962) 11 Mar. 42/5 They're ready an' willin', An' fair at Kadrillin', But my little Flo does the twist.
1998 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 5 Feb. The company serves up enough sassy jigging, reeling, Ceili dancing, quadrilling and so on to make Michael Flatley roll his eyes.
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