Cotillion
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A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
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A [semi-formal] dance for which girls get far too dressed up ([gowns] and fancy jewelry, etc.) and for which many guys come severely under-dressed. [Humiliating], yes. Enjoyable, perhaps if you come drunk.
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A traditional filipino celebration similar to a [quinceañera], but [for a girls] 18th and a boys 21st birthdays. Girls are usually the ones who make a big deal out of it. Its not a required thing, but girls with rich or semi-rich families will usually over-do these celebrations and make their cotillion look like a wedding and have videos and pictures of [the celebration] on social websites, only to get ridiculed by the cost and the amount of seriousness those said girls put into their cotillion.
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A [dance] only [dumb] people [go] to.
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An elaborate 18th-century French dance based on the contredanse.
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