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Conge

verb

Perform a ceremonious bow. Synonym: congee.

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"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books

... he would have imagined that his enemy had won the deanship, the wife, and all the rich honours, for which he had been striving. As it was he had lost everything that he had in the world, and had just received his conge ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... yes," said the boy, with which roguish parody, by way of conge, he scraped back his hard foot on the woven flowers of the carpet, much as a mischievous steer in May scrapes back his horny hoof in the pasture; and then with a flourish of his hat—which, like the rest of his tatters, was, thanks to hard times, a ...

— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville

Words linked to "Conge" : bow down, permission, dismission, discharge, moulding, release, license, architecture, dismissal, permit, firing, molding, liberation, sack, bow, sacking