Crossword clues for cotillion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cotillon \Co`til`lon"\ (k[-o]`t[-e]`y[^o]N" or k[-o]`t[-e]l`-; 277), Cotillion \Co*til"lion\ (k[-o]*t[i^]l"y[u^]n), n. [F. cotillon, fr. OF. cote coat, LL. cotta tunic. See Coat.]
A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
A tune which regulates the dance.
A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
A formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are first presented to society. [1913 Webster +PJC] ||
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 turns in the dance that flash the petticoats.\n
\nMeaning "formal ball" is 1898, American English, short for cotillion ball. French uses -on (from Latin -onem) to reinforce Latin nouns felt to need more emphatic power (as in poisson from Latin piscis). It also uses -on to form diminutives, often strengthened by the insertion of -ill-, as in the case of this word.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bold dance performed in groups of eight where ladies lift their skirts to display their ankles 2 The music regulating the cotillion. 3 A coming-of-age party meant to present girls newly transitioned into womanhood to the community for courtship 4 A kind of woollen material for women's skirts.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The cotillion (also cotillon or "French country dance") is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Europe and America. Originally for four couples in square formation, it was a courtly version of an English country dance, the forerunner of the quadrille and, in the United States, the square dance. It was for some fifty years regarded as an ideal finale to a ball but was eclipsed in the early 19th century by the quadrille. It became so elaborate that it was sometimes presented as a concert dance performed by trained and rehearsed dancers. The later "German" cotillion included more couples as well as plays and games.
Cotillion is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer that was released in 1953. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816.
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 Malazan Book of the Fallen series
- Cotillion Records, a record label
- Cotillion (novel), a 1953 Regency novel by Georgette Heyer
- Cotillion Hall, a historic dance hall in Portland, Oregon, United States
- HMS Cotillion, a name of several Royal Navy ships
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.