[f. QUADRILLE sb.2] intr. To dance quadrilles. Also quasi-trans. with cognate obj., and trans. in nonce-use.
1828. Light & Shade, II. 195. His uses are … to quadrille with young [ladies].
1831. Moore, Summer Fête. These gay things, born but to quadrille, The circle of their doom fulfil. Ibid. (18[?]), Country Dance & Quad., xxvii. Men … Quadrilled on one side into fops, and drilled on t’other into slaves!
1841. Motley, Corr. (1889), I. iv. 93. I waltzed one waltz, and quadrilled one quadrille, but it was hard work.
Hence Quadriller; Quadrilling vbl. sb.
1820. Blackw. Mag., VII. 521. Her husband was formerly one of the gayest … quadrillers, waltzers [etc.].
1820. Praed, County Ball, 399. Upon our waltzing and quadrilling.
1840. Lady C. Bury, Hist. of Flirt, i. They were the most indefatigable of quadrillers.
1853. Reade, Chr. Johnstone, 99. Dancing reels, with heart and soul, is not quadrilling.
