OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18229

kowtow

/ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
postración
The act of kowtowing.
Three elders dressed in their long silk ceremonial gowns perform the kowtow before the altar in their clan ancestral hall.
Phrases
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📚 verb • entry_id 18228

kowtow

/ˈkaʊˌtaʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
postrarse • prostrarse (disused)
To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
When the weather turned cold, the tears that he shed would become frozen like veins; the blood on his forehead from kowtowing would also freeze and would not drip.