French-English translations for révérence

curtseyI refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.The hotels staff variously curtsied, nodded, and bowed to the owner as she passed.
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bowThe musician bowed his violin expertly.The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week.
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Reverence for the dead and the memory of this barbarity are of greater moral value than the democratic right to demonstrate freely. La révérence aux morts et la mémoire de cette barbarie sont bien plus morales que le droit démocratique de la liberté de manifestation. I cannot approve of the casualness with which the problems of alcohol dependence are concealed out of reverence for the producers of alcoholic beverages and their lobbies. Je ne peux approuver la légèreté avec laquelle les problèmes de dépendance sont masqués par révérence à l'égard des producteurs de boissons alcoolisées et de leurs lobbys. your reverence