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cur·te·sy

(kûr′tĭ-sē)

n. pl. cur·te·sies

The life tenure that by common law is held by a man over the property of his deceased wife if children with rights of inheritance were born during the marriage.

[Middle English courtesie; see courtesy.]

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curtesy

(ˈkɜːtəsɪ)

the tenure that a widower holds over the property of his deceased wife

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cur•te•sy

(ˈkɜr tə si)
n., pl. -sies.

the life tenure formerly enjoyed by a husband in his wife's land inheritance after her death, provided they had issue able to inherit.

[1515–25; variant of courtesy]

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Mrs Honour appeared below-stairs, and with a low curtesy to the squire offered to attend her mistress; but he pushed her away, saying, "Hold, madam, hold, you come no more near my house." "And will you take my maid away from me?" said Sophia.

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This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

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Ten yards farther on, John de Witt met a lovely young girl, of about seventeen or eighteen, dressed in the national costume of the Frisian women, who, with pretty demureness, dropped a curtesy to him.

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She grinned cheerfully at us as she made a curtesy, and the overseer remarked that she had just been back to the house and had a baby.

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