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noun
1.
a formal ball given especially for debutantes.
2.
a lively French social dance originating in the 18th century, consisting of a variety of steps and figures and performed by couples.
3.
any of various dances resembling the quadrille.
4.
music arranged or played for these dances.
5.
a formalized dance for a large number of people, in which a head couple leads the other dancers through elaborate and stately figures.
Origin:
1760–70; < French cotillon kind of dance, in Old French: petticoat, equivalent to cote coat + -illon diminutive suffix
1760–70; < French cotillon kind of dance, in Old French: petticoat, equivalent to cote coat + -illon diminutive suffix
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Cotillion
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cotillion
1766, from Fr., originally "petticoat," a double dim. of O.Fr. cote "skirt" (see coat), its application to "a dance" is obscure. Meaning "formal ball" is 1898, Amer.Eng.
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cotillion
late 18th-century and 19th-century French court dance, popular also in England. A precursor of the quadrille, the cotillion was danced by four couples standing in a square set. The first and third, then the second and fourth, couples executed various series of geometric figures.
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