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curtsy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of curtsey.
    alt of curtsey
    • A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 263:

Forms

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curtsies Number=Plur lexicographic

curtsy en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of curtsey.
    alt of curtsey
    • He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy. 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

Forms

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curtsies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
curtsied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
curtsied Tense=Past lexicographic
curtsying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic