[
UK
/kəʊtˈɪliən/
]
NOUN
- a lively dance originating in France in the 18th century
- a ball at which young ladies are presented to society
How To Use cotillion In A Sentence
- The "cotillion" or voting materials may be incomplete. How the Opposition Could Win (Or Lose)
- He enjoyed the best of the Old World's opulence and grace-plays and operas, symphonies and museums, soirées and cotillions.
- The cotillion is a wonderful experience that young women throughout the years have cherished," Dean said. Undefined
- The old Society page, with its news of old-family weddings, cotillions, and charity balls, began everywhere to be replaced in newspapers by the Style page, a very different thing.
- Thusly, she occupied a strange, shadowy social world where she was too wealthy to be excluded, but not worth talking to, and she moved like a ghost about the edges of cotillions and coming outs, pale and unsmiling.
- They gave their children every advantage, and a life in which elegant parties and cotillions were routine.
- Well, this past Saturday I lined up for my first ever 35+ mens open race and first criterium or "cotillion" as my mother in law says of the season. Wheels of Thunder Race report- "Inconceivable"
- The home is lighted with gas, and the quantity consumed being greater than common, it gave out suddenly in the middle of a cotillion.
- Oh, because I just saw her outside with her escort buying a dress for the cotillion and she invited us over for dinner tonight.
- We have a cotillion type of event on Saturday evening.