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Encyclopedia Britannica



QUADRILLE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 707 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
QUADRILLE , the name of a
game
  of
cards
  and of a dance. The
game
 , played by four persons with a
pack
  of
forty
 
cards
 , was a variation of the Spanish game of ombre (q.v.) and superseded it in popularity about 1725, to give way in turn to
whist
 . The dance is of
French
  origin and is usually danced by four couples in square. In the 18th
century
  the contredanse was introduced into the ballet, and groups of four, eight or twelve dancers dressed alike performed different figures; these were first called quadrilles des contredanses, later shortened to quadrilles. The dance became popular outside the ballet, and its figures, five in number, with a
finale
 , bore the names of the different contredanses, Le Pantalon, l'Ele, La Poule, La Trenitz, La Pastostrelle. The dance was introduced into
England
  in 1815. The word in both its applications comes through Ital. quadriglio or Span. cuadrilla from Lat. quadra, a square, four-sided figure (quattuor, four).


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