Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - quadrille
Quadrille
quadrille
1. n. 1 a square dance containing usu. five figures. 2 the music for this. Etymology: F f. Sp. cuadrilla troop, company f. cuadra square or It. quadriglia f. quadra square 2. n. a card game for four players with forty cards, fashionable in the 18th c. Etymology: F, perh. f. Sp. cuartillo f. cuarto fourth, assim. to QUADRILLE(1)
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I. noun Etymology: French, group of knights engaged in a carousel, from Spanish cuadrilla troop, from diminutive of cuadra square, from Latin quadra, quadrum Date: 1726 a four-handed variant of ombre popular especially in the 18th century, a square dance for four couples made up of five or six figures chiefly in 6/8 and 2/4 time, II. adjective Etymology: French quadrillé Date: circa 1885 marked with squares or rectangles ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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