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cadre (n.)
1830, from French
cadre
, literally "a frame of a picture" (16c.), so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from Italian
quadro
, from Latin
quadrum
"a square" (see
quadrille
). The communist sense is from 1930.
