Cosa (chi) è quadrille - definizione
A DANCE FOR FOUR OR MORE COUPLES, POPULAR IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND CONSISTING OF FIVE SECTIONS IN EITHER 2/4 OR 6/8
Quadrille de contre danse; Quadrilles
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Quadrille
·noun The appropriate music for a quadrille.
II. Quadrille ·noun A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
III. Quadrille ·noun A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
IV. Quadrille ·add. ·adj Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as, quadrille paper, or plotting paper.
quadrille
quadrille1 [kw?'dr?l]
¦ noun a square dance performed typically by four couples and containing five figures, each of which is a complete dance in itself.
?a piece of music for a quadrille.
Origin
C18: from Fr., from Sp. cuadrilla or Ital. quadriglia 'troop, company'.
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quadrille2 [kw?'dr?l]
¦ noun a trick-taking card game for four players using a pack lacking eights, nines, and tens, fashionable in the 18th century.
Origin
C18: from Fr., perh. from Sp. cuartillo (from cuarto 'fourth').
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quadrille3 [kw?'dr?l]
¦ noun paper printed with a ruled grid of small squares.
Origin
C19: from Fr. quadrille, from quadrille 'small square'.
quadrille
(quadrilles)
A quadrille is a type of old-fashioned dance for four or more couples.
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Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies. The quadrille consists of a chain of four to six contredanses. Latterly the quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
Performed by four couples in a rectangular formation, it is related to American square dancing. The Lancers, a variant of the quadrille, became popular in the late 19th century and was still danced in the 20th century in folk-dance clubs. A derivative found in the Francophone Lesser Antilles is known as kwadril, and the dance is also still found in Madagascar and is within old Caribbean culture.
Esempi di pronuncia per quadrille
1. on quadrille graph paper --
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Esempi dal corpus di testo per quadrille
1. Already the quadrille that preceded the Iraq war is being danced again.
2. The quadrille was being replaced with the foxtrot; it was all very scandalous.
3. What is a "quadrille"? Can I do it while wearing this repurposed bridesmaid dress?
4. Antonio Carluccio‘s Italia, a celebration of the cultural and culinary traditions of regional Italy, will be published next month by Quadrille, priced 25.
5. Waltzes, polkas, longways country dances, the lancers‘ quadrille –– everybody knew all of them, and had the chance to show them off at least once a month, if not at a formal ball, then at a private party or dance hall.