Quadrille is a historic dance performed by four couples in a rectangular formation, and a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music. A derivative found in the Francophone Lesser Antilles is known in the local Creole as kwadril.
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“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)