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Meanings of cotillion in English

Catalan
cotilló

A ball at which young ladies are presented to society.

        cotilló
        Russian
        котильон
        Spanish
        cotillon
        Catalan
        cotilló

        Type of social dance and musical form.

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                Usage of cotillion in English
                1
                Prince executed the movement as one should who has led the cotillion.
                The Son of the Wolf
                2
                There was a supper up-stairs for all the royalties before the cotillion.
                My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
                3
                But the cotillion was speedily formed without them, and the dance proceeded.
                Home Lights and Shadows
                4
                Kitty was giving a cotillion, an event of some importance in Woodford.
                Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
                5
                Two days after this decision, Peter and Leonore went to a cotillion.
                The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
                6
                We put in all the pretty fancy steps in the cotillion.
                Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
                7
                They want her down there early for some Christmas cotillion dance.
                Unfinished desires: a novel
                8
                About the cotillion, the fact is I thought that you-thatyou-
                The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2
                9
                I'd rather go to a cotillion at Hamilton Hall any day.
                Java Head
                10
                You could write, like dancing the cotillion at a debutante ball.
                The new yorker
                11
                General dancing is in order until supper is served; afterwards the cotillion is danced.
                Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
                12
                Then they had a cotillion in which there was a great deal of bowing.
                A Little Girl in Old Boston
                13
                And one of the amusing things was a draw cotillion.
                A Little Girl in Old Boston
                14
                What happens if you stop dating him before the cotillion?
                Coming out
                15
                One sits out a cotillion-whynot sit out a train?
                The House of Mirth
                16
                Won't anybody invite him to lead a Christmas Eve cotillion?
                The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
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