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curtsey
A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.
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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.
To make a small bow where one crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of the other leg and briefly bends the knees and lowers the body in deference.
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He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.