From the French word quadrille, meaning marked with squares or rectangles. In cooking, it refers to the square charred marks that are the result of a grill's hot grate "branding" the food.

As a cooking term, Quadrillage refers to the square charred marks that are branded on to food that is cooked on the hot grate of a grill. This term is derived from the French word "quadrille", meaning marked with squares or triangles.