cotillion
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thumb|The Cotillion Dance by James Caldwall (1771) thumb|Cotillion dance-figure|figures demonstrated in the Festsaal, [[Hofburg, Vienna, in 2008]]
The cotillion (also cotillon or French country dance) is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Europe and North America. Originally for four couples in square formation, it was a courtly version of an English country dance, the forerunner of the quadrille and, in the United States, the square dance.
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