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A mid-17th century painting by Jacob Duck, called The Cotillion, is the earliest possible reference to a dance with this name.. The name cotillion appears to have been in use as a dance-name at the beginning of the 18th century but, though it was only ever identified as a sort of country dance, it is impossible to say of what it consisted at that early date.
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.
Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records (from 1971 part of WEA) and was active from 1968 through 1985. The label was formed as an outlet for pop , R&B , and jazz . [ 1 ] Its first single, Otis Clay 's version of "She's About a Mover", reached the R&B charts .
Cotillion is an 18–19th century French dance. Cotillion may also refer to: Cotillions, a Billy Corgan album; Cotillion (Malazan), a character in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series; Cotillion, a 1953 Regency novel by Georgette Heyer; Cotillion ball, a formal presentation of young ladies, debutantes, to polite society
Topics about Cotillion Records albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories This category contains studio albums released on the Cotillion Records label. Please move any non-studio albums to an appropriate subcategory per WikiProject Albums guidelines .
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The first was Quadrille, a dance for four couples in square formation, of which a cotillion (the final title) was a more lively forerunner. The other working title was Chicken Hazard , the name of a low stakes game of dice. [ 4 ]
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 .