Definition of "curtsying" [curtsying]

• Present participle of curtsey. (verb)

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• "He was engaged in what I should call "curtsying"; that is, bending his leg joint, and dropping his plump little body for a second, then bobbing up to his fullest height, repeating the performance constantly, -- looking eagerly out over the water the while, evidently expecting somebody."
• "What did she know about, besides curtsying and dinner parties and prim, proper thank-you notes?"
• "Of course there were high times, too, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, curtsying to Queen Elizabeth, enduring Eleanor Roosevelt and staying on high alert when thousands of sailors came ashore from U.S. ships."