Mary should curtsey.
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Curtsey
//ˈkɝtsɪ//
Synonyms for "curtsey" (3 found)
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54 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ревера́нс noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- правя реверанс verb (to make a curtsey)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 屈膝禮 /屈膝礼 noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Czech
2 entries- pukrle noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- úklona noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Danish
4 entries- kniks noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- nej noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- nejning noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- neje verb (to make a curtsey)
Dutch
2 entries- nijging noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- nijgen verb (to make a curtsey)
Finnish
2 entries- niiaus noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- niiata verb (to make a curtsey)
French
3 entries- révérence noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- faire la révérence verb (to make a curtsey)
- révérencier verb (to make a curtsey)
German
2 entries- Knicks noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- knicksen verb (to make a curtsey)
Hungarian
2 entries- pukedli noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- pukedlizik verb (to make a curtsey)
Icelandic
3 entries- hneiging noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- hnébeyging noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- hneigja sig í hnjáliðunum verb (to make a curtsey)
Irish
1 entries- umhlú noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Italian
4 entries- inchino noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- riverenza noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- fare l'inchino verb (to make a curtsey)
- fare la riverenza verb (to make a curtsey)
Japanese
1 entries- おじぎ noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Korean
1 entries- 인사 noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Norwegian
1 entries- neie verb (to make a curtsey)
Polish
2 entries- dygnięcie noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- dygać verb (to make a curtsey)
Portuguese
3 entries- cortesia noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- reverência noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- cortejar verb (to make a curtsey)
Romanian
1 entries- reverență noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Russian
3 entries- кни́ксен noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- приседа́ние noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- ревера́нс noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- kniks noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- кникс noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- napraviti kniks verb (to make a curtsey)
Slovak
2 entries- pukrlík noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- úklon noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
Spanish
3 entries- reverencia noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- hacer una reverencia verb (to make a curtsey)
- inclinarse verb (to make a curtsey)
Swedish
3 entries- knix noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- nigning noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- niga verb (to make a curtsey)
Thai
1 entries- ถอนสายบัว verb (to make a curtsey)
Turkish
2 entries- reverans noun (small bow of knees and lowered body, usually by a female)
- reverans yapmak verb (to make a curtsey)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
After dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
Source: tatoeba (6309912)
I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.
Source: wiktionary
Wid. I take my leaue with many thouſand thankes. / Rich. The Match is made, ſhee ſeales it with a Curſie.
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