Quadrilled

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  • quarrelled
  • quadrilled: danced the quadrille; played quadrille
  • quadrille: (noun)
    • 1. A square dance of French origin composed of five sections and performed by four couples.
    • 2. A card game popular during the 18th century, played by 4 people with a deck of 40 cards.
    • 3. (French) Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; as graphing or plotting paper → ALP's letter (File:Book.PNG) is written on such paper (FW 114.02 ff → French from quadrille: team, crew, one of four groups of horsemen. From Spanish cuadrilla, probably dimunitive of cuadro (square) from Latin quadrum