Definition of "congé" []

• A concave molding. (noun)
• To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy. (verb)

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• "[5424] If I did but let my glove fall by chance, (as the said Aretine's Lucretia brags,) I had one of my suitors, nay two or three at once ready to stoop and take it up, and kiss it, and with a low conge deliver it unto me; if I would walk, another was ready to sustain me by the arm."
• "Hear the word congé pronounced: Download conge. wav"
• "Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge?"