cotillon
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Have the kindness, as they say in your native Vienna, to dance the cotillon in my stead with our fair star.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
"But one can talk through a cotillon," Edgar says, with as much indifference as he can assume.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
They were not the flowers Mr. Varick had sent; they were a bunch bestowed by Courtlandt himself at a little informal dance of the previous evening, where the cotillon had had one pretty floral figure.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
Is such a thing only allowable at a garden party in summer, or during the cotillon at a ball in winter?
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz
When the general came out of the card-room to look once more at the dancers before he withdrew, the cotillon, with its fanciful figures and lavish distribution of ribbons and flowers, was nearly over.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Schubin, Ossip
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