Definitions for cotillions

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cotillions co·til·lion

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

IPA: /kəˈtɪl yən, koʊ-/

Cotillions is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 331 anagrams from letters in cotillions (ciillnoost).

Definitions for cotillions

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 cotillions

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

Examples for cotillions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The shopwoman displayed her assortment of cotillion objects.