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also cotillon
as in prom
a social gathering for dancing
young men hoping to meet the women of their dreams at the cotillion
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Recent Examples of cotillion
At the end of the Ivy Rosettes Mentoring Program, the young women make their formal debut at a cotillion.
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Najahe Sherman,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
The show also has a cotillion episode planned for May and an unannounced Tony and Grammy Award-winning guest star set for an Easter episode.
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Kennedy French,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
This picture is one of a few taken at cotillion, a largely Southern tradition of etiquette classes and formal dance instruction for middle schoolers.
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Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
Her childhood was crawfish boils and auditions, not high society balls and cotillions.
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Jeff Weiss,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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Najahe Sherman,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
The show also has a cotillion episode planned for May and an unannounced Tony and Grammy Award-winning guest star set for an Easter episode.
—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
This picture is one of a few taken at cotillion, a largely Southern tradition of etiquette classes and formal dance instruction for middle schoolers.
—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
Her childhood was crawfish boils and auditions, not high society balls and cotillions.
—
Jeff Weiss,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cotillion
Noun
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Travis opted for a pinstripe suit for his big night out at prom in 2008.
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Reynolds distilled the script down to feature length, keeping the iconic tropes of the genre like the prom, the school play, finals, and graduation all intact.
Noun
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And this led me to think about sharing thoughts about the final dance.
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Please [Smalltown Supersound] As DJ Plead, Lebanese-Australian producer Jarred Beeler has always made music that invites Western dance sensibilities into conversation with the Arabic party music that has otherwise soundtracked his life.
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“Cotillion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cotillion. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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