Crossword clues for curtsy
curtsy
- Girl's show of respect
- Bending at the knees
- A gesture of respect made by women
- Female's bow
- Woman’s greeting abrupt, extremely surly
- Short words many ultimately used for formal greeting
- Respectful bow
- Show respect, in a way
- Respectful gesture
- Polite bow
- Formal greeting
- Woman's bow of respect
- Quaint greeting gesture
- Girl's bow
- Gesture of respect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Courtesy \Courte"sy\ (k[^u]rt"s[y^]), n. [See the preceding word.] An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees. [Written also curtsy and curtsey.]
The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and
the ceremony proceeds as usual.
--Golgsmith.
curtsey \curt"sey\, curtsy \curt"sy\(k[^u]rt"s[y^]), n. An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees. Same as 2nd Courtesy, n..
Syn: curtsy; courtesy.
curtsey \curtsey\, curtsy \curtsy\v. i. to perform a curtsy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "expression of respect," a variant of courtesy (q.v.). Specific meaning "a bending the knee and lowering the body as a gesture of respect" is from 1570s. Originally not exclusively feminine.
1550s, from curtsy (n.). Related: Curtsied; curtsying.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of curtsey English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "curtsy".
Taraboner accents, curtsying, and halfway through that, her face was suddenly that of Beonin Marinye.
With so many Aes Sedai in the village, not even novices curtsied unless an Aes Sedai addressed them, and everyone had errands that needed to be done yesterday.
Frederik was still contentedly peering through the ironwork at the activity below when Cneajna, Eupraxia, and Smaranda dropped their handiwork and jumped up so they could curtsy to the most eligible bachelor in the dukedom as he strolled out onto the balcony.
She made me a graceful curtsy, but I could not make out her features, for a stormy wind was blowing, and she and her two friends had drawn their hoods almost entirely over their faces.
She curtsied and tried not to remember the last time she had seen himoutside the door of her bedchamber with Grandmama, giving her advice on how to treat her burn and looking at her with genuine concern in his eyes before striding off to hasten the arrival of a servant with the salve she had asked for.
The prince was graciously greeting his guests and I curtsied deeply when Grandmama presented me.
A couple of brawny supers carried Mama on stage in Act Four, wrapped in a shroud, tipped her into the cellarage amidst displays of grief from all concerned but up she would pop at curtain-call having shaken the dust off her graveclothes and touched up her eye make-up, to curtsy with the rest of the resurrected immortals, all of whom, even Prince Hamlet himself, turned out, in the end, to be just as un-dead as she.
With a sigh, Perrin returned the dented cup to the blocky little woman he had borrowed it from, a graying cart driver who spread her dark skirts in a curtsy.
The child curtsied and looked askance at her hands with no skirts to spread.
As they had been trained, both girls curtsied, hands reaching for absent skirts.
They bowed and curtsied several times around the room, Ismene feeling her heart rise into her throat as she saw the eyes on them.
Nicola spread her skirts in another curtsy, deeper this time, and words burst out of her in a rush.
Accepted named Anemara, who spread her striped skirts in a deep curtsy.
She told Veronique to look after me well for the two or three days I should spend at Genoa, made me a mute curtsy, and went out with Costa to get a sedan-chair.
Beside him stand the geniuses who have made MEDUSA work again: Dr Chandra, Dr Chubb and Doctor Wismer Splay, along with Dr Twix, who simpers and bobs a curtsy, congratulating Valentine on his trip to Shan Guo.