quadrille
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Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
He likes the sound the keys make, he has said, but turns to the Olympia only once a paragraph he has worked on in his quadrille notebooks seems finished.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2017
At midnight, one dances the fin de siècle quadrille, which peaked in popularity in the late 1800s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2016
Dressed in white tie and a flowing black cloak, he directs the assembled crowd in a huge quadrille, a square dance rather like a Scottish reel.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2014
Director-General Davis was to lead a quadrille, Burnham a “Berlin,” Mayor Harrison a polka.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing quadrille
National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 3
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: quad-
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