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Definition of Kowtows
1. kowtow [v] - See also: kowtow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kowtows
Literary usage of Kowtows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The East of Asia Magazine (1905)
"The master meanwhile kneels before the brazier, and kowtows again ; a third time
he goes through the same performance, making in all nine kowtows. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"A viceroy, on coming into his presence, has to make the nine kowtows or bows to
the ground. His manner was entirely free from reserve, and he seemed most ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Voltaire from of old had faithfully done his kowtows to this King of the Sciences;
and, with a sort of terror, had suffered with incredible patience a great ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1894)
"She kowtows to the foreigner as long as she has something to gain from him ; but
her inordinate conceit presently reasserts itself, and a Chinaman is ..."
5. China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of by John Otway Percy Bland, E. Backhouse (1912)
"The act of obeisance was performed by deputy, in the person of the Regent acting
for the child Emperor, and consisted of nine kowtows before each tablet in ..."
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