Curtis

name

Etymology: From Old French corteis and curteis (Modern French courtois (“polite, courteous”). Doublet of courteous.

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a refined or courtly person.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   “A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and therefore, fire.”

   “The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, — it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: ‘not of the slightest consequence’ whether we were happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as job with potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and sensibilities of the heart […]”

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8. A municipality in A Coruña province, Galicia, Spain.