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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.
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 .
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.
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Debutante dresses in Australia in 1952 58th International Debutante Ball, 2012, New York City (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel) American debutantes, February 2009. A debutante dress is a pure white ball gown, accompanied by long white gloves [1] and pearls worn by girls or young women at their debutante cotillion, although this may not always be the case.
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]