different between quadrella vs quadrille

English

Pronunciation

Noun

quadrella (plural quadrellas)

1. (gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.
   • 2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy?s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,

     Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

   • 2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,

     Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

   • 2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,

     Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

Derived terms

• quaddie (diminutive synonym)

See also

• quadfecta

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?d???l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.

Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

1. A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
2. The music for this dance.
3. (card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
4. A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.

Translations

Verb

quadrille (third-person singular simple present quadrilles, present participle quadrilling, simple past and past participle quadrilled)

1. (intransitive) To dance the quadrille.
   • 1834, Arthur Courtenay, Autobiography and Letters of Arthur Courtenay (page 36)

     We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.

Etymology 2

From French quadrillé.

Noun

quadrille (plural quadrilles)

1. Quadrille ruled graph paper, quad paper.

Derived terms

• quadrille paper

Related terms

• quad
• quadrella

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.d?ij/

Noun

quadrille m or f (plural quadrilles)

1. (bullfighting) cuadrilla

Verb

quadrille

1. first-person singular present indicative of quadriller
2. third-person singular present indicative of quadriller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of quadriller
5. second-person singular imperative of quadriller

Further reading

• “quadrille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).