Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtesies
Literary usage of Curtesies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies: From the Old by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Arthur Coke Burnell, Pieter Anton Tiele (1885)
"... curtesies, manages, and other customes and manners in India. ... and in their
going, curtesies, and conversations, common in all thinges :5 when they go ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The particular curtesies betweene men of sort which have not seene one another
a long while, are the armes bowed and the fingers clasped one within another, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The particular curtesies betweene men of sort which have not seene one another
a long while, are the armes bowed and the fingers clasped one within another, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... not only the manifold curtesies and benefits, which I found and received, now
more than thirty years ago, when I taught the grammar schools at ..."
5. A History of the Inns of Court and Chancery: With Notices of Their Ancient by Robert Richard Pearce (1848)
"Then the constable-marshall, after two or three curtesies made, ... the master
of the game maketh three curtesies as aforesaid, ..."
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