quadrille

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUADRILLE, noun quadril', or cadril'. 1. A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded. 2. A kind of dance.
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