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curtsy

noun as in bending

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Example Sentences

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Cassiopeia curtsied and spread both arms wide, as if to embrace the earth itself.

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Penelope curtsied and backed away as quickly as seemed polite.

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Penelope stood on one leg like a stork and did her best to curtsy.

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“I will do my best,” Penelope said with a curtsy.

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"Because he said he would arrive at four o'clock in the afternoon. He arrived at seven o'clock, kept me standing there, practising curtsy and curtsy," she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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