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Dear Cindy:
A quadrille is a dance with four couples, essentially a square dance. It's a form, rather than a specific dance. See A Time to Dance (1984 or so).
Field Horne
Field Horne
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.
>
> --
> Cindy Amrhein
> Town of Alabama Historian
> in Genesee Co., NY
> Experience the Town of Alabama in Genesee County, NY.
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