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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#m1)

2) The music for this dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#m2)

3) (cards, old) A card game for four players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x1)
- At the ball, four couples stood in a square for the quadrille. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x2)
- «Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x3)
- In a quadrille, each couple takes turns to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x4)
- The band played a lively quadrille. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x5)
- Lobsters are thrown out to sea in the middle of the Lobster Quadrille. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/#x6)

### 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quadrille» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quadrille/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.