單詞
cotillion
英 [k?'t?lj?n]
美[ko't?lj?n]
基本信息
- n. 沙龍舞；一種類似四對舞伴方塊舞的交際舞
英文詞源
- cotillion (n.)
- type of dance, 1766, from French cotillion (15c.), originally "petticoat," a double diminutive of Old French cote "skirt" (see coat (n.)); its application to a kind of dance arose in France and is considered obscure by some linguists, but there are lively turns in the dance that flash the petticoats.
Meaning "formal ball" is 1898, American English, short for cotillion ball. French uses -on (from Latin -onem) to reinforce Latin nouns felt to need more emphatic power (as in poisson from Latin piscis). It also uses -on to form diminutives, often strengthened by the insertion of -ill-, as in the case of this word.
雙語例句
- 1. Would you be all right if you were me and you had to have a cotillion?
- 如果你是我,被迫去學沙龍舞你會覺得很好 么 ?
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