0 When a girl or woman curtsies, she bends quickly at the knees, with one foot in front of the other, often while holding her skirt, especially to show respect: --
She curtsied to the Queen.
1 a movement in which a girl or woman bends quickly at the knees, with one foot in front of the other, especially to show respect: --
She gave a curtsy before presenting the flowers to the princess.
When seated as a personatrix (of the deceased grandmother of her husband), she did not bow with her head to her hands, but made the curtsy.
She deserves a curtsy for that alone.
The woman reciprocates with a small curtsy.
He always treats her with curtsy.
The word curtsy is a phonological change from courtesy known in linguistics as syncope.
I curtsy once more to the implied compliment to the legal profession, but my mind is generally open on the subject.
Monarchs were to be bowed to by men and curtsied to by women.
Do we write pixy or pixie, bogy, bogey or bogie, curtsey or curtsy?
