It is certainly very provoking for them that this Italian must take it into his head to spend a season in London, and lead the cotillon so beautifully that all the young women talked of nothing else but his charms.
He came for a month of the London season, and he met me at Ranelagh, and he danced the cotillon with me at a good many houses, and we cared for one another in a week, and were married in a month, as you know.
How I laughed; but I set all the beaux in the cotillon to picking them up, and I suppose they found the most of them.
She talked, laughed, flirted, jumped, and occasionally appealed to those in the same cotillon to know if they had ever seen such a wild creature.
No one called for a country dance; and the few who had wished for it, concluding all chance over when a cotillon was begun, had now retired, or given it up.
The cotillon was now played, and the preceding bow from the opposite Major forced her courtsie in return.
When thecotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar.
The cotillon had begun, and those who were not dancing were at supper.
Astrardente led his wife from the supper-table through the great rooms, now almost deserted, and past the wide doors of the hall where the cotillon was at its height.
We shall describe the Cotillon as we have seen it in the palaces of Italy, where it is danced with enthusiasm, and diversified by an innumerable variety of figures, only a few of which we can undertake to remember.
The Cotillon is rarely seen in English ball-rooms, but on the Continent, especially in Italy, it is a great favourite.
Pierre at once perceived Monsignor Nani, who was sitting on a low couch, and, as the prelate had hoped, he was quite alone, for the Cotillon had attracted almost everybody to the picture gallery.
You are equally at home in a cotillon and on the deck of a racing yacht.
I am so glad that we gave the first cotillon that had ever been given in the regiment, for it was something new on the frontier; therefore everyone enjoyed it.
We are all very fond of dancing, so I think that Faye and I will give a cotillon later on.
They were all at our cotillon Monday evening, and kept things moving fast.
We attended a pretty cotillonin Bozeman last evening and remained overnight at the hotel.
Just now the garrison seems to have gone cotillon crazy, and not being satisfied with a number of private ones, a german club has been organized that gives dances in the hall every two weeks.
Her illustrious father (in spite of all that her mother said) had never made so much money in all his travels through the world, going fromcotillon to cotillon as the representative of his king.
But the Maria was hardly cast and under way before it became painfully apparent that the Celebrity was much better fitted to lead a cotillon than to sail a boat.
And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired.
I wanted those two waltzes and the cotillon because Bella was the best dancer in Leipsic.
Ziëntek wrung his hands in despair; if she went away the whole cotillon would be spoilt, that up-to-date cotillon with all those bouquets.
I'm getting it up, and if the Tirallas were coming I would arrange a cotillon with flowers.
Schmielke resolved at all events to secure her for the cotillon in good time, as that meant he would take her into supper as well.
The cotillon was led by Count Deym and Count Bergen, and they led it to perfection; there was not a hitch anywhere.
I danced thecotillon with Baron Rothschild and a waltz with the Prince of Wales.
The favors for the cotillon were very pretty, most of them brought from Vienna.
The cotillon was superb; it commenced at two o'clock and finished at the break of day.
The cotillon lasted very late; the Duke of Saxe-Weimar talked a long time with me, mostly about music.
We're carrying a whole lot of wild-cats on margin for Billie Van Gelder, the cotillon leader.
There's Jimson Gooseberry, the cotillon leader, whose name is on every lip during the season.
Cannot a girl be allowed to sit out perhaps a dance, or a whole cotillon even, without the world coming to an end?
It was also the night of the cotillon given by a certain princelet of unpronounceable name and great wealth, who hailed from one of those countries in Europe where quasi-royalties abound.
Cotillon seats are generally secured in the early part of the evening by tying handkerchiefs to the backs of the chairs.
The woman who brings the greatest number of favors from a cotillon scores an undoubted triumph.
Frequently in large cotillons in New York the blank or nonfavor figures are danced only once without change of partners, as in the snake or grand chain; otherwise the cotillon would be interminable.
The leader must announce after supper the time for the cotillon to begin.
A number of well-known matrons are asked to receive the guests, and a cotillon usually follows the supper.
Formerly a cotillon leader used a whistle for the different figures; to-day, however, he simply claps his hands to denote the changes.
Of the few cotillon figures danced in New York society, the grand chain is the most popular and the simplest.
The cotillon in New York is generally danced after supper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotillon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
