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curtsy to someone [for a woman] to dip or bow in deference to someone. Of course, I curtsied to the queen! Do you think I'm an anarchist? The little girls curtsied after they did their dance number. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That was a remarkable curtsy to a government widely distrusted within the Bush administration and branded by Bush as part of an "axis of evil. That influence can be clearly seen around the corner at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, where the ruggedly naturalistic silhouettes of Rodin's 'Burghers of Calais' -- set off by the concrete of Le Corbusier's building -- seem to doff their caps to Hokusai's manga, and the flower paintings of Van Gogh, Monet and, surprisingly, Manet -- in the uncharacteristically chocolate-boxy 'Boy in Flowers' of 1876 --- curtsy to their oriental cousins. In the Sun, Annita [Keating] was the witch whose refusal to curtsy to the queen had been "pathetic" and who would shortly be "prancing around the grouse moors [at Balmoral] dressed like Ruby Wax" . |
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