English Dictionary

quadrille

IPA（発音記号）

/kwɒdˈɹɪl/

名詞

A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance. / The music for this dance.

日本語の意味

18世紀半ばに流行した、四組の男女が正方形の形を作って踊るダンス（現代のスクエアダンスに近い） / このダンスのための音楽

At the historical ball, the visitors were invited to join the quadrille, a lively sequence danced by four couples forming a square.

その歴史ある舞踏会で、来客たちは四組が正方形を作って踊る陽気な舞踏に招かれた。

意味（1）

A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.

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.

意味（2）

The music for this dance.

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

意味（3）

(card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.

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.

意味（4）

A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.

quadrilles （ plural ）