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A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.

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  1. 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.
  4. n. music for dancing the quadrille
  5. n. a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
  6. 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate music for a quadrille. A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded. Hoyle.
  7. A game played by four persons with forty cards, being theremainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights arediscarded. Hoyle.
  8. n:100 n. music for dancing the quadrille n. a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples