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quadrille noun1. E18.
[French, perh. from Spanish cuartillo (from cuarto fourth) with assim. to French QUADRILLE noun2.]
A card-game, fashionable in the 18th cent., played by four people with forty cards, the eights, nines, and tens of the ordinary pack being discarded.