| The home is lighted with gas, and the quantity consumed being greater than common, it gave out suddenly in the middle of a cotillion. |
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| The group continued to talk until Tony led Christina out onto the floor to dance a cotillion. |
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| She brushed off his request to dance the second cotillion with him, using the graceful, courteous snubbery he had spent so long teaching her. |
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| The first was a cotillion that Tony led her through with expert ease and grace. |
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| Oh, because I just saw her outside with her escort buying a dress for the cotillion and she invited us over for dinner tonight. |
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| A precursor of the quadrille, the cotillion was danced by four couples standing in a square set. |
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| The cotillion, originally a lively measured square dance from the French court, became popular in the late 18th century. |
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| During the 19th century cotillion patterns became more varied, and the dancing was combined with the giving of presents. |
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| By the end of the 19th century the cotillion had become so commonplace that its name had come to designate the ballroom dance event itself. |
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| This was the crown of the senior year, the cotillion of cotillions. |
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| The cotillion consisted of a series of short dances or dance segments that mimicked social behaviour, with couples presenting each other with flowers or souvenirs, for example. |
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| A separate line of manuals and a growing number of professional periodicals were sold to dance masters and to cotillion leaders, who managed the order of dances and other activities during the evening. |
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| Like its predecessor, the contredanse francaise or cotillion, it was performed by four couples facing each other in a square. |
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| Such events combined a reception, at least one repast, and lengthy dance sets that alternated round dances with an elaborate type of german called the cotillion. |
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| As England, France, Holland and Spain alternately warred and wooed one another in a diplomatic cotillion, you could choose to privateer with an official letter of marque or simply attack everything that sailed. |
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| Mitt, dear chap, one is delighted to escort Muffy to the cotillion. |
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