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Cotillion   Listen
noun
Cotillion, Cotillon  n.  
1.
A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
2.
A tune which regulates the dance.
3.
A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
4.
A formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are first presented to society.





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"Cotillion" Quotes from Famous Books



... grandfather clock, was quaintly decorated with garlands of red roses. It had beautifully pierced hands, small brass cherub's heads at the corners, and at the top a single small hand pointed to its musical repertoire which consisted of: cotillion, jig, minuet, song, ...
— Christopher and the Clockmakers • Sara Ware Bassett
... order maintained at these fandangoes, and still less attention paid to the rules of etiquette. A kind of swinging, gallopade waltz was the favourite dance, the cotillion not being much in vogue. Read Byron's graphic description of the waltz, and then stretch your imagination to its utmost tension, and you will perhaps have some faint conception of the Mexican fandango. Such familiarity of position as was indulged ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... the attention of the company. And it well might, for the year was 1830, and the mode of performing the cotillion of the period was undergoing the metamorphosis of which the perfect development has been familiar to ourselves. In its next stage the male celebrant is represented to us as "hopping about with a face ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... have to begin at the beginning, he proceeded to explain that Reggie Mann was a cotillion leader, the idol of the feminine side of society. He was the special pet and protege of the great Mrs. de Graffenried, of whom they had surely heard—Mrs. de Graffenried, who was acknowledged to be the mistress of ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... up-stairs for all the royalties before the cotillion. I was told that the Duc d'Aumale would take me to supper. I was very pleased (as we knew him very well and he was always charming to us) but much surprised, as the Orleans princes never remained for supper at any big official function. There would have been ...
— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington


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