It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
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Quadrille
//kwɒdˈɹɪl//
Synonyms for "quadrille" (16 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (8)
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14 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- кадрил noun (dance)
Catalan
1 entries- quadrilla noun (dance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 方阵舞 noun (dance)
Czech
1 entries- čtverylka noun (dance)
Esperanto
1 entries- kvadrilo noun (dance)
Estonian
1 entries- kadrill noun (dance)
French
1 entries- quadrille noun (dance)
Georgian
1 entries- კადრილი noun (dance)
German
1 entries- Quadrille noun (dance)
Greek
2 entries- καδρίλια noun (dance)
- καντρίλια noun (dance)
Ido
1 entries- quadrilo noun (dance)
Italian
1 entries- quadriglia noun (dance)
Polish
1 entries- kadryl noun (dance)
Portuguese
1 entries- quadrilha noun (dance)
Russian
1 entries- кадри́ль noun (dance)
Spanish
1 entries- cuadrilla noun (dance)
Swedish
1 entries- kadrilj noun (dance)
Turkish
1 entries- kadril noun (dance)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
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There was ol' Mickey Coote Who played hard on his flute When the ladies lined up for a set He was tootin' with skill For each sparkling quadrille Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
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It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
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