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cotillon

cotillon is the alternative form of cotillion.

Meaning of cotillion

Noun

cotillion (plural cotillions)

  1. A bold dance performed in groups of eight where women lift their skirts to display their ankles.
    • Mrs. Hughes now joined them, and asked Miss Tilney if she was ready to go. "I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again soon," said Catherine. "Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?"1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December...
  2. The music regulating the cotillion.
    • 1848 I kept a parlor open for the reception of visitors, many came here to practise with me, and many more to listen to us—several young men put themselves under my tuition, and although I had never been taught myself, they progressed finely in their studies and I soon brought out, not only the...
  3. A kind of woollen material for women's skirts.

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Forms of cotillon

pluralcotillons

Questions about cotillon

What is cotillon the alternative form of?
Cotillon is the alternative form of cotillion.

Words near cotillon in the dictionary

  1. cotillion ball
  2. cotillion balls
  3. cotillioned
  4. cotillioning
  5. cotillions
  6. cotillon
  7. cotillons
  8. cotilting
  9. coting
  10. cotinga
  11. cotingas

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