QUATRE

Definition: QUATRE

QUATRE

Noun

1. A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUATRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Quatre \Qua"tre\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Affectation

Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Taste

To one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.

Violence

Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.

Crosswords: QUATRE

Catalan (four), French (four), French Canadian (four), Occitan (four), Provencal (four).

Cardinal À nous quatre (1974)

Les Quatre Charlots mousquetaires (1974)

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971)

Noëlle aux quatre vents (1970)

Au théâtre ce soir: Aux quatre coins (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Babar: Et Les Quatre Voleurs (reference)

• Els Quatre Gats : art in Barcelona around 1900 (reference)

• Fabrice Marin Caietain : Airs mis en musique a quatre parties par Fabrice Marin Caietain sur les Po'sies de P. de Ronsard, & autres excelens po'tes. Premier livre (1576), Second livre d'airs, chansons, villanelles napolitaines & espanolles mis en musique (reference)

• La Damnation de Faust : lâegende dramatique en quatre parties (reference)

• La Favorite: Opera En Quatre Actes = Opera in Quattro Atti (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Quatre Saisons Du Jardinage (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• La Bande des Quatre (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A quatre mains Françaises (reference)

• Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (reference)

• Legende du Scorpion a Quatre Queues (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Les quatre Mendiants sur le Pont au Change. / Lith. de Marlet. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lunettier. : Contenant Quatre Planches. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Portrait of Alexandra Danilova, as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Mauritius

Cities (July 1, 2000): Capital--Port Louis (pop.148,761000). Other cities--Beau Bassin and Rose Hill (102,770), Vacoas-Phoenix (101,000), Curepipe (81,223), Quatre Bornes (78,384). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "QUATRE": faire le diable a quatre ♦ le diable a quatre ♦ tire a quatre epingles. Additional references.

Containing "QUATRE": mille-quatre-cents-quatre-vingts-deux.

Greek 

Τεσσάρα. (various references)

Pig Latin

atrequay

Derivations

Words beginning with "QUATRE": quatrefoil, quatrefoils, quatres. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quarte.

-1 letter: quare, quart, quate, urate.

-2 letters: rate, tare, tear, true, urea.

-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, eta, qat, qua, rat, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, uta.

-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, ut.

+1 letter: equator, parquet, quarter, quartes, quartet, quatres, racquet.

+2 letters: antiquer, equators, paraquet, paroquet, parquets, pratique, quadrate, quaestor, quainter, quartern, quarters, quartets, quartile, quartzes, quatorze, racquets, requital, squarest, squatter, torquate.

+3 letters: acquitter, antiquers, banqueter, barquette, marquetry, paraquets, paroquets, parqueted, parquetry, pratiques, quadrated, quadrates, quaestors, quantizer, quartered, quarterly, quarterns, quartette, quartiles, quartzite, quartzose, quatorzes, requitals, sequestra, squatters, squattier.