quadrille (redirected from Quadrille de contre danse)

quadrille

Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England from Parisian ballrooms in 1815, it consisted of four or five contredanses (see country dance), each danced with prescribed combinations of intertwining figures rather than depending on intricate individual steps. It was often danced to opera melodies. See also American square dance.

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quadrille¹

1. a square dance of five or more figures for four or more couples

2. a piece of music for such a dance, alternating between simple duple and compound duple time

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quadrille²

an old card game for four players