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What (who) is curtsey - definition
TRADITIONAL GESTURE IN WHICH A FEMALE LOWERS HER KNEES
Courtsey; Curtsy (gesture); Texas Dip; Curtsying; Curtseying; Curtsey
![A young girl presenting flowers to Queen [[Elizabeth II]] outside Brisbane City Hall in March, 1954.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/StateLibQld 1 104060 Presenting flowers to The Queen outside Brisbane City Hall in March 1954.jpg?width=200 "A young girl presenting flowers to Queen [[Elizabeth II]] outside Brisbane City Hall in March, 1954.")
curtsey
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curtsy
(also curtsey)
¦ noun (plural curtsies or curtseys) a woman's or girl's formal greeting made by bending the knees with one foot in front of the other.
¦ verb (curtsies, curtsying, curtsied or curtseys, curtseying, curtseyed) perform a curtsy.
Origin
C16: var. of courtesy.
curtsy
I
n. to make a curtsy
II
v. (D; intr.) to curtsy to (to curtsy to the Queen)
Wikipedia
Curtsy
A curtsy (also spelled curtsey or incorrectly as courtsey) is a traditional gendered gesture of greeting, in which a girl or woman bends her knees while bowing her head. In Western culture it is the feminine equivalent of bowing by males. Miss Manners characterizes its knee bend as deriving from a "traditional gesture of an inferior to a superior." The word "curtsy" is a phonological change from "courtesy" known in linguistics as syncope.
Examples of use of curtsey
1. She performed a deep curtsey as she approached the dais.
2. "She (Zara) was showing us how to curtsey and making us all feel relaxed.
3. Royal flunkeys will reliably bow and curtsey, but such reflex deference increasingly has to be earned.
4. The woman who wouldn‘t curtsey for the Queen shut up for Bush.
5. My sister asked him if she had to curtsey because he was going to be King.