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Conge

verb
1.
Perform a ceremonious bow.  Synonym: congee.






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"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books



... But remember this. Count Giraldi is the Chief Minister of this Government, and this Government is your host. Count Giraldi is therefore major-domo. Keep in with him, my dear sir, by all means, unless you desire (a) your conge, or (b) an extortionate bill for breakages and arrears. I need only mention the name of the Marchese Semifonte—no more on ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett

... fast, John," said Warrington with less enthusiasm. "I haven't said a word to Patty yet; and if she's a sensible young woman, she'll give me my conge first-off." ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

... shall write first?" is a question that has perplexed many a lady or gentleman who is anxious to do the correct thing under any circumstances. A lady who has left town may send a brief note or a "P. P. C." ("pour prendre conge," i.e., "to take leave") card to a gentleman who remains at home, if the gentleman is her husband and if she has left town with his business partner. Neither the note nor the card requires an acknowledgment, but many a husband ...
— Perfect Behavior - A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises • Donald Ogden Stewart

... next week the French minister, having presented his successor to the Czar, and received his own conge, left the court and the city, and ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth

... 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, ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville



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



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