cotillon

cotillon (plural cotillons)

1. Alternative form of cotillion.
   • 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 200:

     The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:

     "Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." / "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" / I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.

From cotte (“dress”) +‎ -illon (“diminutive”) + (alt. -ille + -on).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ti.jɔ̃/

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cotillon m (plural cotillons)

1. (archaic) petticoat
2. (dance) cotillion, cotillon
3. (in the plural) party novelties (e.g. paper hats, streamers etc.)

• English: cotillon, cotillion

• “cotillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cotillon m (invariable)

1. small favour/favor

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cotillon m (plural cotillons)

1. (Jersey) skirt

• cotelle