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The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies. The quadrille consists of a chain of four to six contredanses . Latterly the quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
Quadrille is a card game that was highly popular in the 18th century at the French court and among the British nobility, especially women. A variant of the three-player, Spanish card game Ombre , it is played by four players, both in varying alliances and solo games, using a pack of 40 cards (the 8's, 9's and 10's being removed).
Quadrille is a play by Noël Coward. It is a romantic comedy set in the mid-Victorian era, and depicts the romantic permutations when an English aristocrat elopes with the wife of an American businessman and the American falls in love with the aristocrat's deserted wife. The play premiered in London in 1952, starring Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt.
Quadrille is the name of two loosely related card games of the Patience or solitaire type which are often confused. Both use a pack of 52 playing cards . The earlier one was also known as La Française ("the Frenchwoman") or Royal Quadrille , the slightly later one as Captive Queens .
The stately quadrille reached its height in 1756, when several new alliances formed as a result of the Diplomatic Revolution. In 1740, Prussia, an emerging power, attacked Austria . Britain and France soon became embroiled in the War of the Austrian Succession , which ended in a stalemate in 1748, but Austria appeared to have lost most in the war.
A Quadrille dress is a bespoke [citation needed] dress worn by women in Caribbean countries. The quadrille dress is the folk costume of Jamaica , Dominica and Haiti . It is known by a different name in each country.
Quadrille is a choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, which is often compared to an equestrian ballet or to a drill team. The basic elements of quadrille riding came from the linear formations used in warfare dating back to the 1650s. [ 1 ]
Conway called it a quadrille. The internal angle of the square is 90 degrees so four squares at a point make a full 360 degrees. It is one of three regular tilings of the plane .