curtsey
Sign in to saveAlso known as curtsy
thumb|First Lady of the United States|United States First Lady [[Michelle Obama with a young girl curtsying at the White House on October 6, 2010.]] thumb|The wife of Rotterdam mayor [[Gerard van Walsum curtsying to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, September 23, 1964.]]
Wikidata facts
- Image
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Curtsey (1898).jpg
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Curtseys
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Article
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Decline
- Today
- Dance
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|First Lady of the United States|United States First Lady [[Michelle Obama with a young girl curtsying at the White House on October 6, 2010.]] thumb|The wife of Rotterdam mayor [[Gerard van Walsum curtsying to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, September 23, 1964.]]
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 bowing her head. In Western culture it is the feminine equivalent of bowing by males, and people will commonly curtsy in some churches as a simplified genuflection.