0 a dance in which four pairs of dancers dance together, that was popular in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries
It would be a sort of lobster quadrille, with two steps forward and two steps backwards and not much happening.
This has become legal fantasy, a legal quadrille.
The balance of terror made it perfectly clear that that quadrille, with a bit of luck, would not transgress the bounds of security.
They lack confidence and their lobster quadrille impresses no one.
This is not an eighteenth century quadrille, or a mediæval tourney.
The quadrille is going on.
At the end of the quadrille, the committee is faced with the prospect of having two rooms with nine desks or four rooms with 12 desks.
The quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
