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curtsey

traditional gesture in which a female lowers her knees
Thing gesture Q972027
curtsey
William-Adolphe Bouguereau · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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curtsey

Summary

curtsey is a gesture[1]. curtsey draws 329 Wikipedia views per month (gesture category, ranking #7 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • curtsey's image is recorded as William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Curtsey (1898).jpg[3].
  • curtsey's instance of is recorded as gesture[4].
  • courtesy is named after curtsey[5].
  • curtsey's Commons category is recorded as Curtseys[6].
  • curtsey's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/090f46[7].
  • curtsey's different from is recorded as Reverence[8].
  • curtsey's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i74919[9].
  • curtsey's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07289595-n[10].
  • curtsey's Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID is recorded as 151039430[11].

Why It Matters

curtsey draws 329 Wikipedia views per month (gesture category, ranking #7 of 27).[2] curtsey has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] curtsey is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_curtsey_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{curtsey}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/curtsey}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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