Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
congee . - noun A gallon or congius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow ceremoniously, or courtesy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
concave molding . - verb intransitive To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perform a ceremonious bow
- noun an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
- noun (architecture) a concave molding
- noun formal permission to depart
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[5424] If I did but let my glove fall by chance, (as the said Aretine's Lucretia brags,) I had one of my suitors, nay two or three at once ready to stoop and take it up, and kiss it, and with a low conge deliver it unto me; if I would walk, another was ready to sustain me by the arm.
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French Word-A-Day: 2005
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French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge?
Vanity Fair 2006
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Knightsbridge, taking her tea, breaking up little bits of toast with her slim fingers, and sitting between a Belgian horse-dealer and a German violoncello-player who has a conge after the opera — like any other mortal.
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French Word-A-Day: 2005
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John, who follows my Lady with a coroneted prayer-book, and makes his conge as he hands it into the pew.
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A messenger had been sent for him, and he was upstairs with her ladyship while his rival was receiving his conge downstairs.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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