Quadrille1. (n.) A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
2. (n.) The appropriate music for a quadrille.
3. (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
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