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A precursor of the quadrille, the cotillion was danced by four couples standing in a square set.
The lancers, a variation of the quadrille, became popular in the late 1800s and was still danced in the mid-20th century in folk-dance clubs.
Boston whist was a nonpartnership game compounded of whist and quadrille (see ombre) played in 18th-century France.
Imported by English aristocrats in 1815 from elite Parisian ballrooms, it consisted of four, or sometimes five, contredanses; like the contredanse, the quadrille depended more on the cooperative execution of intertwining figures, or floor patterns, than on intricate stepwork.
The quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
The María Clara, a stately minuet, and the Rigodón de Honor, a quadrille, were adopted by local European society for its formal balls.
With keywork added it became the popular quadrille flageolet of the mid-19th century, made famous by the virtuoso Collinet.
Historians trace the origin of the square dance to both the Kentucky running set of English derivation and to the cotillon, a stately French dance in square formation, popular at the court of Louis XV but supplanted later by the quadrille (also a "square" dance).
In the 18th century the French developed a four-hand version, quadrille.
