cotillon
noun
cotillons
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pluralof cotillon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At last a lady takes her seat at the piano, then comes an eager rush of gentlemen into the room, and partners are taken for cotillons,—large, double, very double cotillons, here called contradanças.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various
Edward and Ellen soon became exhilarated by the music, and joined the cotillons.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
Frankling, son of the locomotive works, authority on speckled vests and cotillons, was scrapping with Ole Skjarsen, the cuffless wonder from the lumber camps, for the affections of the prettiest girl in college.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
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 George (George Augustus) Moore
The tables are all circular, and cotillons are chiefly preferred from having this quality.
From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney
