cotillon
Americannoun
-
cotillons
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Preparations were being made for the final cotillon.
From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
We shall wear our masks until midnight, and then have a cotillon afterwards.”
From The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies by Crane, Laura Dent
Many a "cotillon" was danced on the deck of that first boat, while the unloading was being vigorously carried on below.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.
It is quite different from our cotillon or the Sir Roger de Coverley.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
The Duchess selected the Condesa de Cotorraso to lead the cotillon, and she took Cobo Ramirez for her partner.
From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
Frequently in large cotillons in New York the blank or nonfavor figures are danced only once without change of partners, as in the snake or grand chain; otherwise the cotillon would be interminable.
From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter
For the Patriot women take their hazel wands, and fustigate, amid laughter of bystanders, with alacrity: broad bottom of Priests; alas, Nuns too reversed, and cotillons retrousses!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
He leads all the cotillons worth speaking of, and is a universal favorite.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
His son, we were told, was a very smart young officer who led cotillons at the Athenian balls—two generations from the original brigand.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
It seems quite natural to be in this dear old hotel, where all during the past winter our "Army and Navy Club" cotillons were danced every two weeks.
From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
