Definition of Courtesies

1. Noun. (plural of courtesy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Courtesies

1. courtesy [v] - See also: courtesy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Courtesies

courtbred
courtcraft
courted
courteous
courteously
courteousness
courteousnesses
courtepies
courtepy
courter
courters
courtesans
courtesanship
courtesied
courtesies
courtesy
courtesy card
courtesy copy
courtesy name
courtesy of
courtesying
courtezan
courtezans
courthouse
courthouses
courtier
courtierlike
courtierly
courtiers

Literary usage of Courtesies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age by Virgil Mores Hillyer (1915)
"Formal drills as with habit drills can be given for each of these courtesies, without waiting for the occasion or opportunity to arise. 1. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1860)
"THE Courtesies OF WAR. Is making use of the trite phrase of " the horrors of war," none except soldiers are fully aware of what is comprised in that ..."

3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1901)
"... The Spray floated but somewhat damaged — Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado — A warm greeting at Montevideo — An excursion to Buenos Aires ..."

4. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"For, Courtesies to noble minds are the most extreme extortions that can be. Favours thus imparted, are not gifts, but purchases, that buy men out of their ..."

5. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... AND BARRICADES—THRONGED STREETS—SENOR DON FREDERICO DERBYSHIRE—" OUR HOST"—A WELCOME—OFFICIAL Courtesies—OUR QUARTERS—FIRST NIGHT IN GRANADA. ..."

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