Sentence examples for for the cotillion from inspiring English sources

Porter, a native of nearby Wilmington, Del.., stepped out a bit by asking the still-developing filly to leave her West Coast base behind to compete twice at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York and to make another cross-country trek for the Cotillion.

She patiently sat off Carina Mia's right flank for much of the Cotillion before rushing past seemingly whenever she pleased.

Like the majority of the cotillion crowd, Ms. Moran and Mr. Cohen said that although the event afforded them a nifty opportunity to dress up and hit the town with their dogs -- usually possible only on trips to Paris -- they came for a more noble reason.

In 1980 "The Official Preppy Handbook" arrived as a field guide to the habits of the cotillion-hopping, madras-wearing, loafer-shod upper crust.

At 12 30 p.m. Traub went to The Cotillion Room at the Pierre, for a lunch given by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, honoring John C. Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State.

Dressed in the cotillion gown of her youth for the fabled "Gentleman Caller" scene, she keeps flying into the empyrean of the past and then falling to the hard earth of the present.

Tom Wolfe took the latter strategy at a lavish party recently held for his Southern masterpiece, "A Man in Full," in the Cotillion Room at the Pierre Hotel.

For young, straight, well-educated American women, sleeping around for pleasure and experience has become a social convention, the way dancing the cotillion at a débutante ball once was.

MINSTREL COFFEEHOUSE Groovelily and the Cotillion Singers.

The cotillion consisted of a series of short dances or dance segments that mimicked social behaviour, with couples presenting each other with flowers or souvenirs, for example.

The cotillion, originally a lively measured square dance from the French court, became popular in the late 18th century.