quadrille

Noun

music for dancing the quadrille
a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples
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.
A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.
A square tiling of the plane.

Verb

To dance the quadrille.

Adj

Marked with squares.

Origin / Etymology

French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.

Scrabble Score: 19

quadrille: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
quadrille: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quadrille: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

quadrille: valid Words With Friends Word