Showing posts with label courtesy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courtesy. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

courtesy, curtsey

Courtesy or courtesy means polite behavior or an expression of consideration--
Make sure that our employess treat all clients with courtesy.
The hotel offered an airport shuttle as a courtesy to its guests.

Curtsey or curtsey ( sometimes spelled curtsy ) means a sort of bow made by women in olden times, or in foreign countries, as a display of respect to a superior--
A curtsey is made by bending the knees and bowing the head.
The only place an American will see a curtsey is on the stage.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"You won't be expected to curtsey to our guests, just to treat them with courtesy."

Note--"curtesy" is a legal term form the past, meaning the right a husband had to a life tenure in his late wife's land--
After his wife's death, he continued to work the farm as a tenant by the curtesy.