cotillon

Alternative form of cotillion.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of cotillion.
    • The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon. - 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […],...
    • "Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." / "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" / I was somewhat set back by her...

Forms

cotillons