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- A curtsy (also spelled curtsey or incorrectly as courtsey) is a traditional gendered gesture of greeting, in which a girl or woman bends her knees while...
- and etiquette, and fundraising for charities. Debutantes being presented curtsey to a large birthday cake in honour of Queen Charlotte. The Queen Charlotte's...
- The Texas dip is a form of elaborate curtsey and prostration performed in Texas during debutante balls. It involves the woman extending her arms completely...
- Publishers. pp. 407. ISBN 1-56000-901-2. MacCarthy, Fiona (2007). Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-22860-7. O'Driscoll...
- her feet and holding her little skirt wide with her hands she made him a curtsey. "Will you," said His Majesty, "change Crêpes Princesse to Crêpes Suzette...
- feathers in their hair—curtsied, performed a backwards walk and a further curtsey, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length. The ceremony, known...
- belief that the Queen would not abdicate. Her autobiography, The Final Curtsey, was published in 2011. She was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island...
- Affair. Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-949087-6. MacCarthy, Fiona (2006). Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571228591. Mitford...
- King, holding his hand and kissing it, as the wives and children bow or curtsey, a gesture of respect to old king and new. The King and I opened on Broadway...
- tastes throughout the series. June mentions that she was taught a formal curtsey in the event that she married a diplomat and Aunt Martha frequently proudly...