Cotillon

The term cotillon (also: cotillion, cotillon) has different meanings:

• fashion historical term for certain petticoats of peasant costume in France
• derived from this in the 18th century: a certain counter dance ,
• corresponding musical compositions (e.g. by Schubert)
• in the 19th century developed into a dance game
• also shortened for: cotillon articles , the decorative paper articles given away during this cotillon dance.
• Title of a ballet by George Balanchine and Boris Kochno to music by Emmanuel Chabrier , including April 12, 1932
• a record label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.