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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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