Crossword-Solution: KOTOW 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Among the things reserved were that he should kotow to her once every five days whether she were in Peking or at the Summer Place, and she reserved such seals of office as made it necessary for all the highest officials to come and express their obligations to her at the same time they came to thank the Emperor.

When the Viceroy died she wanted to go and kotow at his funeral, and all his family except the eldest son were anxious to have her do so, and thus be recognized as one of the family.

The story of the first audience is still fresh in our memories; the trivial difficulties introduced by obstructive statesmen at every stage of the proceedings, questions of etiquette and precedence raised at every turn, until finally the _kotow_ was triumphantly rejected and five bows substituted in its stead.

From the date of his landing at Tientsin, he was persistently told that unless he agreed to perform the _kotow_, he could not possibly be admitted to an audience.

Once under the shadow of the wall, the trap unpacked, easel and umbrella up, and water-bottle filled, Joe started his windmill, paused at the third kotow, looked me straight in the eye, and, with a tone in his voice, as if he had at last come to some conclusion, made this request: "I have no eat breakfast, effendi--very hungry--you please permit Joe go cafe with Yusuf--we stay ONE hour, no more.