A lively group dance, a variation of a quadrille or reel, popular in French and European folk traditions.
From French grandrelle or grande-relle, combining grande (great/grand) with relle or ronde (a round dance). This French folk dance term entered English in the 19th century through cultural contact.
The grandrelle is a linguistic ghost from when European folk traditions were more connected—it's a word that traveled across the continent with the dance itself, embedded in centuries of celebration!
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