Definitions for cotillion

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cotillion co·til·lion

Spelling: [kuh-til-yuh n, koh-]

IPA: /kəˈtɪl yən, koʊ-/

Cotillion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in cotillion (ciillnoot).

Definitions for cotillion

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 of cotillion

1760-70; French cotillon kind of dance, in Old French: petticoat, equivalent to cote coat + -illon diminutive suffix

Examples for cotillion

The shopwoman displayed her assortment of cotillion objects.

It was the week of the Moore cotillion that Miss Winthrop observed the change in him.

Then they had a cotillion in which there was a great deal of bowing.

I told her to keep the cotillion in case you should ask for it.

Kitty was giving a cotillion, an event of some importance in Woodford.

Mitt, dear chap, one is delighted to escort Muffy to the cotillion.

During the encampment we have a hop three times a week—a cotillion party.

At any rate, under the circumstances I don't feel that I can take you to the cotillion.

He went to the barn one morning, just as the cotillion commenced.

I simply said I wanted to be excused from taking her to the cotillion.