[
US
/ˈkɝtsi/
]
[ UK /kˈɜːtsi/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːtsi/ ]
VERB
-
make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand - bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting
NOUN
- bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women
How To Use curtsy In A Sentence
- Inside the house a maid bobbed in curtsy to indicate that Grace should follow her upstairs. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
- ‘I thought tennis had had enough of manners,’ he writes, ‘of bowing and curtsying to rich people who didn't pay taxes.’
- And then, within a matter of months, people were bowing to her, people were curtsying to her, people were looking at everything she wore, analyzing everything.
- ‘Yes, your highness,’ she said, curtsying as best she could.
- I approached my father as usual, and fell in to a deep curtsy before his feet.
- Each of the girls dipped a small curtsy when their name was called.
- Indeed the upper echelons, who to the unenlightened merely appear as parasitic larcenous thugs, will have a tad more than the $5 being shoveled at those welfare recipients that curtsy correctly.
- And then he would bow in his paint-spattered coveralls, the drywall contractor with the dimpled chin and eyes as blue as the lake, and she would curtsy in her polyester slacks and Ban-Lon shirt, the housewife with the waves of hair and the smile that could light up the sky, and they would whirl around the living room while I watched from the kitchen, sheepish but happy. The Hanging Tree
- Of course there were high times, too, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, curtsying to Queen Elizabeth, enduring Eleanor Roosevelt and staying on high alert when thousands of sailors came ashore from U.S. ships. Writing about writers: Puerto Vallarta and Jenny McGill
- Turning around, she gave a formal curtsy to the Lord of Ghent.