quadrille

«quadrille» in Mova's school dictionary: An old dance for four couples standing in a square, done… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a quadrille, quadrilles)

meaning for a pupil

1) An old dance for four couples standing in a square, done in several parts, popular in the 1800s. tree →

2) The music for this dance. tree →

3) (cards, old) A card game for four players. tree →

sense in the lessons

Quadrilles were danced at balls in Victorian times, like a square dance. In Alice in Wonderland, the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille for Alice, with the song «Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail». The name comes from Latin and French words for four (like quadrilateral).

examples

• The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon danced the Lobster Quadrille. tree →
• At the ball, four couples stood in a square for the quadrille. tree →
• «Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?» tree →
• In a quadrille, each couple takes turns to move. tree →
• The band played a lively quadrille. tree →
• Lobsters are thrown out to sea in the middle of the Lobster Quadrille. tree →

note

Sounds like «kwa-DRILL». «Quad-» means four: quadrilateral, quad bike, quadruple. Old-fashioned word.

In the corpora

• The Gryphon asks «Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quadrille» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.