A girl told me she had once sat through an entire cotillion with a youth whose only remark during the evening had been (after absorbed contemplation of the articles in question), "How do you like my socks?
He even served as committee-man for cotillion parties.
The leader of the cotillion should have been Henri de Loubersac.
We have every confidence in your house being able to supply us with a cotillion complete in every detail.
She considered that were her customer's orders executed to the letter she would have the oddest assortment of cotillion accessories that could be imagined.
The shopwoman displayed her assortment of cotillion objects.
But Wilhelmine de Naarboveck gave but a perfunctory attention to this choosing of cotillion accessories.
She had to remain in the Cruel City as the free and unrestricted Wife of a Cotillion Leader with an Income of $22.
Now there resided in this Town a certain High Priestess of the Socially Elect and a Queen Bee of the Cotillion Tribe.
While Parson Strong and a devoted few are singing the songs of Zion, the boys are having cotillion parties in other parts of the camp.
The boys are having a grand cotillion party on the green in front of my tent, and appear to have entirely forgotten the privations, hardships, and dangers of soldiering.
Dodo snatched up an old cotillion hoop from where it stood in the corner with fifty other relics, and began practising it.
Dodo was to have led the cotillion with Lord Ledgers.
In the corner of the room were a heap of old cotillion toys, several hunting-whips, and a small black image of the Virgin, which Dodo had picked up abroad.
I never closed my eyes till Walter came home--he danced the cotillion with your mother.
I will get an invitation for you, and will keep the cotillion for you.
Mary must go on with her music, must be put through the lessoning and grooming of a gentlewoman, and take her place in the dancing class that would be the Junior Cotillion in a year or two.
Brandolin goes to his before the cotillion is over, but he sleeps very little.
As the interminable hours wear away, and the noise and absurdities of the cotillion are at their height, she, who never dances anywhere, drops her fan, and he is before the others in restoring it to her.
Gervase to her that night when for a moment he is alone near her, while the cotillion overture commences.
Beside Loulou and Frau Ellrich there were Fraulein Malvine Marker, with her mother, and also Herr von Pechlar, the lieutenant of hussars of cotillion fame.
His presence made an indelible impression upon my memory as I was dancing a cotillion with him when, to my nervous horror, the pictures in the ballroom began to spin and I made myself conspicuous by nearly fainting.
He taught only the cotillionand the three-step waltz and came to our school three times a week for this purpose.
In the midst of this is another circle, forming a pavilion for musicians, also brilliantly illuminated, and containing a large cotillion band of the most finished performers.
There is a platform on the top of it, upon which a cotillion can be comfortably danced.
These cotillion dinners have been a pretty fashion for two or three winters, as they enable four or five young hostesses to each give a dinner, the whole four to meet with their guests at one house for a small German, after the dinner.
Whether it be assembly, hunt ball, or private party, the German cotillion finishes the bail.
There is a newly married man speaking with his wife, and trying to persuade her to leave before the cotillion begins.
No long evenings of cruel boredom, in order to be seen at smart houses, will cloud the maiden’s career, no agonized anticipation of retiring partnerless from cotillion or supper will disturb her pleasure.
IV This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning.
And now," continued the ringmaster, "we will wind up the cotillion with the marriage of Mirth to Folly!
He went to the barn one morning, just as the cotillion commenced.
He had been her partner three times at the dances of the Cotillion of One Hundred.
And she had looked ahead sharply and realized how desolate the Cotillion of One Hundred and the Thursday Theater Club would be for her if Addison Wyngard should go to Texas, after all.
The organization and general character of the Bachelors' Cotillion is not unlike that of the celebrated St. Cecilia Society of Charleston.
The modern steps are danced at these balls, but there are usually a few cotillion figures, albeit without "favors.
Several times in the course of the cotillion Russell's hand clasped her, but even then he avoided looking at her, and seemed engrossed in conversation with his gay partner.
Irene moved away from the window, and soon after was about to accompany Charlie to the hall, when a Mr. Bainbridge came up and claimed her hand for the cotillion forming in the next room.
IV This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sound of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning.
Yes, he's won the greatcotillion prize competition.
He's competing for the great cotillion prize competition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotillion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
