quadrille

Example Sentences

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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

Taking cues from the quadrille, an 18th-century European social dance and cousin of American square dancing, the choreographer Lar Lubovitch has invited four colleagues to make dances that can be viewed from four sides.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2016

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