(n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
(n.) A tune which regulates the dance.
(n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
(n.) A formal ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
Octillion
Definition:
(n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.