courtsey

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courtsey (plural courtseys)

  1. Archaic spelling of curtsey.
    • 1888, Mary J. Holmes, Bessie's Fortune[1]:
      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[2]:
      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[3]:
      Clam jumped up, and crossing her hands on her breast dropped a brisk little courtsey to her benefactor.

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