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"text": "I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.",
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"ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 159, column 2:",
"text": "Wid. I take my leaue with many thouſand thankes. / Rich. The Match is made, ſhee ſeales it with a Curſie.",
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"ref": "1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Amy’s Will”, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 284:",
"text": "[I]t was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately courtesies, and sweeping her train about, with a rustle which delighted her ears.",
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"ref": "1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter II, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:",
"text": "No caps were touched, no curtseys bobbed.",
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"text": "The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.",
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"ref": "1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 180:",
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"text": "1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America\nBut DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings."
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"text": "1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk\nHe curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious."
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"text": "1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games\nThe gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight)."
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"text": "I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.",
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"ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 159, column 2:",
"text": "Wid. I take my leaue with many thouſand thankes. / Rich. The Match is made, ſhee ſeales it with a Curſie.",
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{
"ref": "1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Amy’s Will”, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 284:",
"text": "[I]t was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately courtesies, and sweeping her train about, with a rustle which delighted her ears.",
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{
"ref": "1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter II, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:",
"text": "No caps were touched, no curtseys bobbed.",
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"ipa": "/ˈkɜːtsɪ/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "屈膝禮"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "qūxīlǐ",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "niiaus"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "pukedli"
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"feminine"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "hnébeyging"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "umhlú"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "riverenza"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inchino"
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{
"code": "ja",
"english": "bow",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ojiki",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "おじぎ"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "insa",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "인사"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dygnięcie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cortesia"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverência"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverență"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ревера́нс"
},
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"roman": "kníksɛn",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кни́ксен"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "приседа́ние"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
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"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кникс"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pukrlík"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "úklon"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reverencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "nigning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "knix"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female",
"word": "reverans"
}
],
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"word": "congee"
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{
"word": "congé"
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{
"word": "conge"
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"word": "Not to be confused with courtsey"
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"text": "The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.",
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{
"ref": "1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 19.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "\"I’m sure you’ll excuse me, sir,\" said Mrs Varden, rising and curtseying.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 180:",
"text": "On the other hand, Mrs. Ladbrook was standing in skull-cap and front, with her turban in her hand, curtsying and smiling blandly[…]",
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{
"ref": "1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XVI, in Allan Quatermain:",
"text": "'I be as nothing in the eyes of my lord,' and she curtseyed towards him[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1890, James Russell Lowell, Address in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America\nBut DANTE was a great genius, and language curtseys to its natural Kings."
},
{
"text": "1903, W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk\nHe curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious."
},
{
"text": "1908, Caroline Crawford, Folk Dances and Games\nThe gentleman bows and the lady curtesys (measure eight)."
}
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"To make a curtsey."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pravja reverans",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "правя реверанс"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "nijgen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "niiata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "faire la révérence"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "révérencier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "knicksen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "pukedlizik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "hneigja sig í hnjáliðunum"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare la riverenza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "fare l'inchino"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "neie"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "dygać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "napraviti kniks"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "inclinarse"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "hacer una reverencia"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "niga"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make a curtsey",
"word": "reverans yapmak"
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"word": "curtsey"
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