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The cotillion (also cotillon or French country dance) is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Europe and North America. Originally for four couples in square formation , it was a courtly version of an English country dance , the forerunner of the quadrille and, in the United States, the square dance .
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 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
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The novel was begun in 1952 and during its course was given two earlier alternative titles. The first was Quadrille, a dance for four couples in square formation, of which a cotillion (the final title) was a more lively forerunner.
In 1979, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Cotillion Hall. In 1997, the ballroom was re-opened by McMenamins , featuring Ringlers bar/restaurant on the first floor, the little sister of the historic Crystal Ballroom, Lola's Room , is located on the second floor, and the restored Crystal Ballroom on the third ...
These are two important, but different, Southern traditions—so don’t get them confused.
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 .