noun. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

noun. A tune which regulates the dance.

noun. A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.

noun. A formal ball, especially one at which debutantes are first presented to society.

noun. Alternative form of cotillion.

"It is true she never performed above one or two at most; but what she did, she piqued herself upon executing with a degree of spirit, which made all the operators in cotillon steps, and allemands, 'hide their diminished' heels."

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