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Contradance (also known as cotillion) is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. [1] It is probably so called because when the game is won, it shows the king and the queen of each suit about to do a dance, the cotillion being a country dance from the 18th century.
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The Fleur de Lis Ball is a formal cotillion ball in St. Louis, Missouri, for adolescents of affluent society around the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, started in 1958 by a group of Catholic upper-class women. [1] It teaches etiquette and ballroom skills to young debutante women and men.
Royal Cotillion is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. The name probably derives from the fact that since the two kings and two queens of the same suit, the king and queen of each suit dance the cotillion .
These are two important, but different, Southern traditions—so don’t get them confused.
The English word cotillion is a variation of the French cotillon (which does not have i in the last syllable). [1] In English, it is pronounced / k ə ˈ t ɪ l j ə n / or / k oʊ ˈ t ɪ l j ə n /; but in French, it is . The French word originally meant "petticoat (underskirt)" and is derived from Old French cote (‘cotte’) and the ...
In "The Essentials of Business Etiquette," Barbara Pachter writes about the rules people need to understand to conduct and present themselves appropriately in professional social settings.
The Savannah Cotillion Club (also known as the Savannah Cotillion Society) is a formal dance society based in Savannah, Georgia. Its Christmas Cotillion, first held in 1817, [1] it is the oldest debutante ball in the United States. [2] [3] It takes place annually a few days before Christmas. [4]