curtsy
English
Noun
curtsy (plural curtsies)
- Alternative spelling of curtsey
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 263:
- 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.
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Verb
curtsy (third-person singular simple present curtsies, present participle curtsying, simple past and past participle curtsied)
- Alternative spelling of curtsey
- 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The House of the Seven Gables:
- He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.
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