curtsy, curtsey
(noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women
curtsy, curtsey
(verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting
Source: WordNet® 3.1
curtsey (plural curtsies or curtseys)
A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.
• (gesture): congee, congé, conge
curtsey (third-person singular simple present curtsies or curtseys, present participle curtseying, simple past and past participle curtseyed)
To make a curtsey.
• congee, congé, conge
• curtesy
Source: Wiktionary
9 April 2025
(adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy; “made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue”- Kenneth Roberts
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
