The courtly gentleman guided women around the floor to big band standards with all the aplomb of teenage boys waltzing at a cotillion dance they’ve been forced to attend by their parents.
Read more on SalonRon Dong recalled how he and the other nonwhite students would get together the night white youths gathered for cotillion because they never received invites.
Read more on Los Angeles TimesPink was the color of the gown she was wearing when she died in a buggy crash coming home from a cotillion.
Read more on Los Angeles TimesThe enterprising president of the Harriet Holland Social Club just wants the cotillion to be successful.
Read more on New York TimesThey gathered in Black fraternities and sororities, at cotillions, bridge parties.
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