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Definition of Courtlier
1. courtly [adj] - See also: courtly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Courtlier
Literary usage of Courtlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... and the verdict of the curator ran that it might have outlived the courtlier
metals, but that its greediness of the humbler sort of coin had killed it ! ..."
2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"Chivalry—the institution and the whole knightly character—began in the rough and
veritable, and progressed to courtlier idealizations. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"I think it might be—were it better writ And courtlier phrased, with Latin spice
cast in, And a more tunable descant. MARY STUART : Ay; how sweet Sang all ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Never was courtlier Billingsgate uttered, or which came more directly home to
the business and bosoms of women. The subject is that old story of Precedence, ..."
5. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"Never was courtlier Billingsgate uttered, or which came more directly home to
the business and bosoms of women. The subject is that old story of Precedence, ..."
6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1841)
"The laureate, who no courtlier rhymes than “dust to dust” can find—- The Kings
and Queens who having ta'en that vow and worn that crown, Descended unto ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"See now, a courtlier form is gliding past. More soft, more truly Dimity than the
last; He apes nut, he, the warrior's lordly ..."
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