What kind of dance was the quadrille? Or is it slang and not really a dance? (See below)

The Daily News
Batavia, Genesee Co., NY
Thursday Evening, April 7 1881.

MERE MENTION.
--The Cuba News is now engaged in writing up the "nice young men" of that
place.  Their remarks in regard to the boys are unusually sharp.
--Can you dance the quadrille?  My brother Bill can dawnse[sic] the
quadrille, and goes to the bar and gets his fill, like any other pill--so be still.


--
Cindy Amrhein
Town of Alabama Historian
in Genesee Co., NY
Experience the Town of Alabama in Genesee County, NY.
http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/
APHNYS (Association of Public Historians of New York State)
http://www.tier.net/aphnys



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