curtsy

English

Noun

curtsy (plural curtsies)

1. Alternative spelling of curtsey
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 263:

     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.

Verb

curtsy (third-person singular simple present curtsies, present participle curtsying, simple past and past participle curtsied)

1. Alternative spelling of curtsey
   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:

     He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.

Anagrams

• crusty