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Subject:	Re: What is a quadrille?
From:	Linda Tremante <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 1 May 2002 09:55:52 -0400
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According to the Webster New Riverside Dictionary - Office Edition - a quadrille is: 1) a square dance of 5 figures performed by 4 couples and 2) music for the quadrille.

>>> [log in to unmask] 04/30/02 12:41PM >>>
At 7:50 PM -0400 4/29/02, HistorianCindyA wrote:
>What kind of dance was the quadrille? Or is it slang and not really a
>dance? (See below)
>
>The Daily News
>Batavia, Genesee Co., NY
>Thursday Evening, April 7 1881.
>
>MERE MENTION.
>--The Cuba News is now engaged in writing up the "nice young men" of that
>place.  Their remarks in regard to the boys are unusually sharp.
>--Can you dance the quadrille?  My brother Bill can dawnse[sic] the
>quadrille, and goes to the bar and gets his fill, like any other pill--so
>be still.

A real dance.
I dont know how to decribe it though.
How about a formal square dance with no calling.


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