It would be a sort of lobsterquadrille, with two steps forward and two steps backwards and not much happening.
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This has become legal fantasy, a legalquadrille.
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The balance of terror made it perfectly clear that thatquadrille, with a bit of luck, would not transgress the bounds of security.
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They lack confidence and their lobsterquadrilleimpresses no one.
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This is not an eighteenth centuryquadrille, or a mediæval tourney.
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Thequadrilleis going on.
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At the end of thequadrille, the committee is faced with the prospect of having two rooms with nine desks or four rooms with 12 desks.
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Thequadrillewas frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
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They each do a series of sets, consisting of five quadrilles played at successively swifter tempos.
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The set is made up of four couples in a square formation, similar to aquadrilleor square dance formation.
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Masqueraders travel door to door and receive small gifts, while dancing a standard set of dances consisting of a heel-and-toe polka and five quadrilles.
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He hired rooms and taught the dances - quadrilles, schottisches, polkas, and the like - before the dance started.
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However, thequadrilletradition now only survives at holidays and festivals.
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It takes its name from thequadrille, a dance in which the participants constantly swap partners.
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Terms used in thequadrilleare mostly the same as those in ballet.
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