What is a cotillion?

Question

What is a cotillion?Some of my Filipino friends are having one.What is that?

Answer 1

It's another word for the debutante's ball where youg women(18 years of age)make their bows to society.

Answer 2

A cotillion is a 19th century Dance, before they started dance the men get a bouquet of flowers for the woman partner.Then the dance starts, the pairs stands in rows facing each other then crossing each other, to end together.

Answer 3

A cotillion is a dance in which young ladies are introduced to young men. It is a custom where girls begin to make the transition from girls to young womanhood.

Answer 4

It's just another word in the dictionary.