courtsey
English
Noun
courtsey (plural courtseys)
- Archaic spelling of curtsey.
- 1888, Mary J. Holmes, Bessie's Fortune:
- Addio!" and with a mocking courtsey she left the room, and going to her chamber wrote to Bessie that she was coming home immediately.
- 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
- Lady Elizabeth as usual passed by without a contribution, but made a formal courtsey to the elder at the plate, and sailed up the aisle.
- 1856, Susan Warner, Hills of the Shatemuc:
- Clam jumped up, and crossing her hands on her breast dropped a brisk little courtsey to her benefactor.
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Anagrams
- cosurety, courtesy