Англо-русский словарь - quadrille
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1. n. 1 a square dance containing usu. five figures. 2 the music for this. Etymology: F f. Sp. cuadrilla troop, company f. cuadra square or It. quadriglia f. quadra square 2. n. a card game for four players with forty cards, fashionable in the 18th c. Etymology: F, perh. f. Sp. cuartillo f. cuarto fourth, assim. to QUADRILLE(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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I. noun Etymology: French, group of knights engaged in a carousel, from Spanish cuadrilla troop, from diminutive of cuadra square, from Latin quadra, quadrum Date: 1726 1. a four-handed variant of ombre popular especially in the 18th century 2. a square dance for four couples made up of five or six figures chiefly in 6/8 and 2/4 time; also music for this dance II. adjective Etymology: French quadrille Date: circa 1885 marked with squares or rectangles ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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(quadrilles) A quadrille is a type of old-fashioned dance for four or more couples. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a dance, popular especially in the 19th century, in which the dancers form a square ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1773, "lively square dance for four couples," from Fr. quadrille, originally one of four groups of horsemen in a tournament, from Sp. cuadrilla, dim. of cuadro "four-sided battle square," from L. quadrum "a square," related to quattuor "four." Earlier a popular card game for four hands (1726). The craze for the dance hit England in 1816, and it underwent a vigorous revival late 19c. among the middle classes. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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