Meanings
plural curtsies
- alternativeAlternative spelling of curtsey.
A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 263
present singular third person curtsies · participle present curtsying · participle past curtsied · past curtsied
- alternativeAlternative spelling of curtsey.
He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounbending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women
verbmake a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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