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cotillion
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Cotillion is an 18–19th century French dance. Cotillion may also refer to: Cotillion ball , a formal presentation of young ladies, debutantes, to polite society Cotillion Ballroom , a music venue in Wichita, Kansas Cotillion (Malazan) , a character in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of dance, 1766, from French cotillion (15c.), originally "petticoat," a double diminutive of Old French cote "skirt" (see coat (n.)); its application to a kind of dance arose in France and is considered obscure by some linguists, but there are lively ...
Usage examples of cotillion.
Hood take us, Cotillion, if it was fanatical worshippers you hungered for, you should never have looked to assassins.
I think it best to assume that no matter how devious Pust is, Shadowthrone and Cotillion are more devious.
We would have our associations severedwith you, with Cotillion, and with every other Ascendant.
Kellanved is Shadowthrone, and Dancer is Cotillion, the Rope, Patron of Assassins.
The air was a mist of suspended blood around the patron god of assassins, and before Cutter drew his fourth breath since the battle began, it was over, and around Cotillion there was naught but corpses.
In cotillion or quadrille, with sets and steps fixed, demanding a certain space, there was little chance of unexpected intimacy.
Amalie, just now engaged in a cotillion with a young man from Coravann.
The squares of the cotillion or minuet were missing, yet there were no rows of a country-dance.
He must have said the proper things, done the right things from force of habit, as his feet performed the accustomed steps of the cotillion without conscious effort on his part.
They call their dances cotillions instead of quadrilles, and the figures are called from the orchestra in English, which has very ludicrous effect on European ears.
The cotillion was on then, and the favors for the midnight figure were gilt cornucopias filled with loose flowers.
Look,' sez I, 'at the disgrace he brings upon a high-toned, fash'nable girl, at whose side he's walked and danced, and passed rings, and sentiments, and bokays in the changes o' the cotillion and the mizzourka.
The cotillions were over, the country-dancing beginning, and she saw nothing of the Tilneys.
After the first cotillion I led her to a couch, and reclining on it drew her down by my side, and would soon have brought matters to a crisis had she not prevented me again, by saying that we should be obliged to enter the lists, and go through our first manual exercise on a state couch in the centre of the room, surrounded by the whole company.
There's also the Grand Fin de Siecle Cotillion on New Year's Eve as we swing into yet another new century.