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Webster 1913 Edition
Courtier
1.
One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
You know I am no
courtier
, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon.
This
courtier
got a frigate, and that a company. Macaulay.
2.
One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
There was not among all our princes a greater
courtier
of the people than Richard III. Suckling.
Webster 1828 Edition
Courtier
COURTIER
,Noun.
1.
A man who attends or frequents the courts of princes.2.
One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who flatters to please; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance.There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
Definition 2024
courtier
courtier
English
Noun
courtier (plural courtiers)
- A person in attendance at a royal court.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1,
- By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1,
- A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 12,
- People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber. Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 12,
Translations
attendant at a royal court
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a person who flatters in order to seek favour