• Quadrille is a play by Noël Coward. It is a romantic comedy set in the mid-Victorian era, and depicts the romantic permutations when an English aristocrat...
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  • Quadrille (patience), a patience or solitaire game of the 'simple builder' type Quadrille (dressage), a choreographed dressage ride Quadrille (play)...
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    The can-can is believed to have evolved from the final figure in the quadrille, a social dance for four or more couples. The exact origin of the dance...
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    a courtly version of an English country dance, the forerunner of the quadrille and, in the United States, the square dance. It was for some fifty years...
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    Quadrille is a card game that was highly popular in the 18th century at the French court and among the British nobility, especially women. A variant of...
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    Quadrille is the name of two loosely related card games of the Patience or solitaire type which are often confused. Both use a pack of 52 playing cards...
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  • Quadrille Ball is an annual society ball that has taken place in New York City each year since 1961, usually in January or February. It is a non-profit...
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    "The Mock Turtle's Song", also known as the "Lobster Quadrille", is a song recited by the Mock Turtle in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures...
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    The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette...
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    calls Tarok-Quadrille, but which the earliest source simply records as a new version of "Taroc between 4 people... played as in Quadrille". The following...
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  • its opening words, "Vedi! Le fosche". Thomas Baker wrote Il Trovatore Quadrille (1855) for piano, which includes a movement based on this chorus. Similarly...
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  • and one woman. They each do a series of sets, consisting of five quadrilles played at successively swifter tempos. The couples will switch out as they...
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    Ombre (section Play)
    developed into a whole family of related games such as the four-hand Quadrille, three-hand Tritrille, five-hand Quintille and six-hand Sextille, as well...
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  • Debut-Quadrille, Op. 2 (1844) Cytheren-Quadrille, Op. 6 (1844; 1845) Serben-Quadrille, Op. 14 (1846) Odeon-Quadrille, Op. 29 (1846) Zigeunerin-Quadrille, Op...
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  • Briscola (I) Lansquenet (I) L'Hombre (Sp) Mus (Sp) Primero (I or Sp) Quadrille (Sp) Scopa (I) Sette e mezzo (I) Tressette (I) Zwanzigerrufen (T) Shortened...
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    in order to be able to play against an alliance of the others, the defenders. From the four-player version of L'Hombre, Quadrille, came the idea of choosing...
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    played alone against the other two. The game spread rapidly across Europe, spawning variants for different numbers of players and known as Quadrille,...
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    the quadrille became especially popular. Quadrilles were originally danced from memorized steps and sequences, but as African American slaves played music...
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (category British novels adapted into plays)
    Alice then meets a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle, who dance to the Lobster Quadrille while Alice recites (rather incorrectly) a poem. The Mock Turtle sings...
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    electronic forms of the game. 500 Bridgette Euchre King Lanterloo Nap Ombre Quadrille Rex Bridge Skat Spades Spoil Five Vint Whist Glossary of contract bridge...
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    South Sea Bubble (1951) is a political comedy set in a British colony; Quadrille (1952) is a drama about Victorian love and elopement; and Nude with Violin...
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    Regency Era, from 1811 to 1830, the Quadrille became the most popular dance in England and France. The Quadrille consisted of a large variety of steps...
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    Dominican folk music is a hybrid of African and European elements. The quadrille is an important symbol of French Antillean culture, and is, on Dominica...
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    Chloe (2012). Vogue On: Alexander McQueen. Vogue on Designers. London: Quadrille Publishing. ISBN 978-1849491136. OCLC 828766756. Gleason, Katherine (2012)...
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  • Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children 1973: Lucy & Carly – The Simon Sisters Sing for Children [re-issue of the "Lobster Quadrille" album] 2006:...
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    Fox, Chloe (2012). Vogue on: Alexander McQueen. Vogue on Designers. Quadrille Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 978-1849491136. OCLC 828766756. Mingay, Jane...
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  • Dr. Catherine "Cathy" Gale is a fictional character played by Honor Blackman, on the 1960s British series The Avengers. She was the first regular female...
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  • Thomas' bamboula. The quadrille is the traditional folk dance of the islands, and include varieties like St. Croix's Imperial Quadrille and St. Thomas' Flat...
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    cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also "excellent games of patience for two...
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    music). Traditional music is imbued with many dances, such as the jig, the quadrille, the reel and line dancing. Traditional instruments include harmonica...
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