Qua-drille', n.

(kwa-drĭl', or ka-drĭl') (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr. quadrille, Sp. cuadrilla, It. quadriglia, fr. Lat. quadrula, diminutive of quadra, a square, fr. quatuor, four.]

1. A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines, and eights are discarded. Hoyle.
2. A kind of dance made up of sets of dances, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.