A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.

To make a curtsey.

Alternative spelling of curtsey

Alternative spelling of curtsey

The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.

simple past tense and past participle of curtail

plural of curtilage

(historical) A variety of short-barrelled cannon. / (music) An early type of bassoon. / (obsolete) A horse or other animal having a docked tail. / (obsolete) Anything docked or cut short.

(obsolete) Of horses, having a docked tail. / (now rare) Physically shortened; short. / (obsolete) Abridged, curtailed.

(archaic) A friar with a short gown.