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"As though there wasn't anything else to do but lead cotillons and get up new figures!"

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank

Here is again husband and wife side by side!--because we wanted her in the cotillons.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

Moreover, as Mrs. Trennahan now had a grown-up daughter, she was obliged to take her to the cotillons and other routs given under the merciless supervision of the Leader.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

I have also written about cotillons as they are conducted in New York.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

As the child was, so is the woman, and Georgette has lived to paper one entire wall of her bedroom with trophies won in the battlefields of ardently danced cotillons.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)