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] ||
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of cotillion English)
Usage examples of "cotillon".
In those days, the cotillon had just become a fashionable craze, and no hostess of the great world thought her entertainment complete unless Ruel Bey organised and led the figures.
Doctor Marillier did not dance the cotillon, did not sing, did not act, had not that peculiar charm of manner which is found in both men and women of mixed nationality, but he had gifts of his own, powers of his own, even a certain odd charm all his own.
Later on, when the dancing began, a bevy of would-be partners crowded round the girl, and after that, he had only seen her as she whirled round in a waltz or played her part in the cotillon led by Ruel Bey.
The supper, which is always eaten sitting down, is a great feature of the evening, and there is invariably a cotillon afterwards.
Sir Lucius Grafton rejoin her, and lead her to the cotillon that was forming on the turf.
Berlinton mentioned, that she had been taking some lessons in a cotillon, a universal cry was raised by all her party, to try one immediately.
Camilla what belonged to pleasantry in this business was of short duration, When the cotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar.
I imagine it is something about the cotillon, concerning which I am absolutely ignorant, and am therefore capable of offering any amount of advice.
The young men had brought a fiddler from the village, and it was not long before most of the company were treading the measures of reels or cotillons on the grass.
We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
CHAPTER VI As an endeavor to unite Mohair and Asquith the cotillon had proved a dismal failure.