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QUADRILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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QUADRILLE , the name of a See also:

GAME

game of See also:

CARDS, PLAYING

cards and of a See also:

dance. The game, played by four persons with a See also:

pack of See also:

FORTY

forty cards, was a variation of the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish game of See also:

OMBRE

ombre (q.v.) and superseded it in popularity about 1725, to give way in turn to See also:

WHIST

whist. The dance is of See also:

French origin and is usually danced by four couples in square. In the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the contredanse was introduced into the See also:

BALLET

ballet, and See also:

groups of four, eight or twelve dancers dressed alike performed different figures; these were first called quadrilles See also:

des contredanses, later shortened to quadrilles. The dance became popular outside the ballet, and its figures, five in number, with a See also:

FINALE (Ital. for " end ")

finale, See also:

BORE

bore the names of the different contredanses, Le Pantalon, l'Ele, La Poule, La Trenitz, La Pastostrelle. The dance was introduced into See also:

England in 1815. The word in both its applications comes through Ital. quadriglio or Span. cuadrilla from See also:

Lat. quadra, a square, four-sided figure (quattuor, four).

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