Definition of Curtesies

1. curtesy [n] - See also: curtesy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtesies

curtainwalls
curtal
curtal friar
curtalax
curtalaxe
curtalaxes
curtals
curtana
curtanas
curtate
curtation
curtations
curtaxe
curtaxes
curter
curtesies (current term)
curtest
curtesy
curtilage
curtilages
curtin
curtly
curtness
curtnesses
curtsey
curtseyed
curtseying
curtseys
curtsied
curtsies

Literary usage of Curtesies

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

1. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"... curtesies, manages, and other customes and manners in India. ... and in their going, curtesies, and conversations, common in all thinges :5 when they go ..."

2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The particular curtesies betweene men of sort which have not seene one another a long while, are the armes bowed and the fingers clasped one within another, ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The particular curtesies betweene men of sort which have not seene one another a long while, are the armes bowed and the fingers clasped one within another, ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... not only the manifold curtesies and benefits, which I found and received, now more than thirty years ago, when I taught the grammar schools at ..."

5. A History of the Inns of Court and Chancery: With Notices of Their Ancient by Robert Richard Pearce (1848)
"Then the constable-marshall, after two or three curtesies made, ... the master of the game maketh three curtesies as aforesaid, ..."

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