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  • noun Plural form of cotillion.

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Examples

  • It is the sort of place where dances are still called cotillions, where girls can be debutantes.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2006 2006

  • The already Croesus-rich white man can't get another skyscraper hotel finished and opened before all these integration-mad Negroes, who themselves don't own a tool shed, are booking the swanky new hotel for "cotillions" and "conventions."

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • There were debutantes and cotillions as well as gangs and drug addicts.

    American Girl 2009

  • There were debutantes and cotillions as well as gangs and drug addicts.

    American Girl 2009

  • There were islands of social life, such as dinner parties in the dignified mansions of Georgetown and grand cotillions on Capitol Hill and by the Navy Yard.

    President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

  • There were islands of social life, such as dinner parties in the dignified mansions of Georgetown and grand cotillions on Capitol Hill and by the Navy Yard.

    President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

  • There were islands of social life, such as dinner parties in the dignified mansions of Georgetown and grand cotillions on Capitol Hill and by the Navy Yard.

    President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

  • “But you went to their parties, and they included you in those Knickerbocker cotillions.”

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • “But you went to their parties, and they included you in those Knickerbocker cotillions.”

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • So as long as the Party of Talk Radio continues to be defined by scumlords like Hannity to depend on talk radio to populate its Palin rallies and Tea Bag cotillions, it will continue to be "purified" down to its most concentrated "base" while Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, etc., drive to the bank .... the Swiss bank.

    How Talk Radio Plays the GOP for Chumps 2009

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